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Beethoven: Symphony No 9 / Manfred Honeck; Pittsburgh SO; Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

Celebrate Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Recorded in superb audiophile sound, this release is the eleventh in the highly acclaimed

Pittsburgh Live! series. The PSO’s recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 /Barber Adagio for Strings won the 2018 GRAMMY Award for Best Orchestral

Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album. 1SACD# REF 741 $19.99

Bruckner: Symphonie No. 6 / Mariss Jansons; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

The 2015 Munich concert year began at the end of January with two high-lights: two performances of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony with Mariss Jansons

conducting the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. The live recording contains an outstanding interpretation of one of the most important

compositions in the Late Romantic symphonic repertoire. For a long time, Anton Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony was regarded as something of a ‘poor re-lation’ in his immense symphonic oeuvre, even though the composer himself

had referred to it as his “boldest”. 1CD# BRK 900190 $16.99

Respighi: Transcriptions / John Neschling; Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege

The success of Ottorino Respighi’s ‘Roman Trilogy’ brought the composer international fame as an outstanding orchestrator. One side effect of this

are the orchestral transcriptions gathered on this album: all made in 1929-30 and commissioned by eminent conductors such as Arturo Toscanini and

Serge Koussevitzky for their American orchestras. “Orchestre Philharmo-nique Royal de Liege and John Neschling bring us the fifth installment in a series that has been called the finest-ever survey of the composer’s or-

chestral output undertaken by a single conductor.” - BBC Music Magazine 1SACD# BIS 2350 $19.99

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Paris / Hilary Hahn; Mikko Franck; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio FranceThree-time GRAMMY-winning violinist Hilary Hahn pays homage to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her ca-reer. Paris features Poème for Violin and Orchestra by Parisian-born composer Chausson; Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.1, first performed in Paris; and the world premiere recording of Rautavaara’s final score, Deux Sérénades, written for and premiered by Hahn, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Franck. 1CD# DGG B003341302 $19.99

Il Cannone - Francesca Dego plays Paganini’s Violin Francesca Dego, violinPaganini’s violin, the legendary ‘il Cannone’, made by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in 1743, is one of the most important musical instruments in the history of Western music. Upon his death, he bequeathed ‘il Cannone’ to his home city of Genoa, where it is permanently housed under high security. It has been heard on record just a handful of times. Francesca Dego comments: “Spending a few enchanted days recording with this priceless treasure was unforgettable.” 1CD# CHA 20223 $18.99

Joseph Szigeti - The Complete Columbia Album Collection [17 CDs]This 17-album box set collects the recordings made between 1940 and 1956 for American Columbia by renowned Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti. This new collection displays many treasures of Szigeti’s passionate dedication to chamber music from Bach, Handel, Tartini, Schubert, Brahms, Mozart, among others. Ma-jor orchestral works represented in this edition include two towering concertos in D major – the Brahms, recorded in 1945 with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Beethoven, recorded in 1947 with Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic. 17CD# SNYC 19075940352 $55.99

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Recommended Piano Programs

NEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL

ReleasesNew Classical Stanchinsky (1888–1914): Piano Works / Peter Jablonski, piano

Pianist Peter Jablonski’s second album on Ondine features a large selection of piano works by Alexey Stanchinsky (1888–1914), one of the most talented Russian composers of the early 20th century. Stanchinsky was not only a talent but a genuine innovator who despite of his early death had a profound influence on the generation of composers to follow. Peter Jablonski is the perfect interpreter for these magnificent gems.

1CD OND 1383 $14.99

Ivan Bessonov plays Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, ProkofievIvan Bessonov is an exceptional musical phenomenon. In 2015, he made his debut in his native Russia as a film music composer, while his international breakthrough came in 2018 when he won the ‘Eurovision Young Musicians Competition’ in Edinburgh, one of the more important international music competitions. On this recording he offers a challenging program of Russian classics and an original composition.

1SACD ARSP 38321 $19.99

Alfred Brendel: My Musical Life [DVD Video]Alfred Brendel has often visited Prague to give lectures and masterclasses at the Rudolfinum, highlights of which are captured on this DVD. Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert are the figures he, as a pianist, treasures most. The autobiographical lecture My Musical Life provides the viewer with a glimpse of the universe full of paradox that gave rise to the legend called Brendel.

1DVD-Video SPR 7141 $27.99

Journeys: Orchestral Music from Five Continents / Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Harth-Bedoya

Peruvian-born, American-trained conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, is inspired to look at how music, like the poetic concept of peace, can unite the world. The idea behind Journeys is to create an example of that unity in a tangible form by bringing together music from every continent into one album. With works inspired by myths and mechanics, the themes in this collection of world premiere recordings range as widely as their origins.

1CD NXS 8574265 $12.99

English Music for Strings / John Wilson; Sinfonia of London

During the 1930s, Bliss, Britten, and Berkeley all contributed major works to the repertoire for string orchestra, following in the footsteps of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. They are joined on this album by Frank Bridge whose Lament was composed during the First World War. This is the fourth recording by John Wilson with his award-winning Sinfonia of London.

1SACD CHA 5264 $18.99

The Brandenburg Project / Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Dusgaard [3 CDs]

This boxed set provides a unique opportunity to experience six very different musical minds entering into conversation with Bach: Mark-Anthony Turnage, Steven Mackey, Anders Hillborg, Olga Neuwirth, Uri Caine and Brett Dean. In performing these twelve works, the orchestra and Peter Dausgaard are joined by leading soloists including Clare Chase, Mahan Esfahani, Håkan Hardenberger, Pekka Kuusisto and Tabea Zimmermann.

3SACD BIS 2199 $59.99

Biber: Requiem / Vox Luminis, Freiburger BarockConsort

The vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, founded by Lionel Meunier in 2004, is now regarded as a benchmark in the interpretation of the great works of German Baroque music. Its unfailingly faithful and lively approach to such masters as Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidt has made the group’s reputation, but this new recording features a major work by Heinrich Biber, his Requiem in F minor for 14 voices, composed around 1692.

1CD AHP 665 $18.99

Two Solo Recitals 1959 / Friedrich Gulda [3 CDs]This is the fifth and final installment of the series dedicated to the complete recordings Friedrich Gulda made for the SWR and contains two recitals (live recordings) the Austrian pianist gave in Germany in 1959. All those who attended Gulda’s concerts report unanimously that a very special aura emanated from him – the distinct impression that the music sounded as if performed for the first time in the here and now.

3CD SWRM 19098 $34.99

Caeli / Gísladóttir and Sverrisson [2 CDs]Caeli is spun out of the idea of skies and dimensions merging into a boarderless being boasting of a rich and vivid texture. During the recording of Caeli, Bára Gísladóttir (double bass) & Skúli Sverrisson (bass guitar) discussed about how the world is opening up and how this would and could affect music as well. They like to look at Caeli as a product of this openness – a crystallisation of freedom, exposure and transparency in sound.

2CD SUIN 70020 $17.99

Territorial Music – Recorder Music by Sunleif RasmussenSince his emergence on the musical scene in 2002, Faroese composer Sunleif Rasmussen has continued to make a name for himself and his island home on the world music scene. Among his many striking compositions is a growing corpus of works featuring the recorder. As always, Michala Petri brings each score to life with consummate artistry and is perfectly matched by each of the ensembles performing with her.

1CD OUR 6220674 $19.99

The Forgotten Recordings / George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra [2 CDs]

The first release of never before available performances by one of the defining partnerships of modern American music – George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra.The Forgotten Recordings features eight historic performances from 1954 and 1955 – seven of which are first releases – that have been restored and remastered by the multi-award-winning audio restoration engineer Lani Spahr.

2CD SOMM 5011 $29.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor / Thielemann; Vienna PhilharmonicVienna Philharmonic began a new Bruckner symphony cycle with Christian Thielemann last year, which is supposed to last until 2024, the year of the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth. Symphony No.8 marks the start and the first live recording of the Bruckner cycle tour. The Vienna Philharmonic is familiar to Bruckner’s music unlike any other orchestra, having premiered four of his nine symphonies.

1CD SNYC 19439786582 $14.99

Immersion / Angèle Dubeau, violinThis new recording again pairs the dream team of violinist Angèle Dubeau and string ensemble La Pieta. “An album that features composers whose music speaks deeply to me. Music in which I have found a refuge and a wellspring of goodness. Music that is sometimes imbued with finesse, or even purity, fragility, or with meditative gentleness and that can provide an introspection into one’s emotions. An immersion in oneself.” – Angèle Dubeau

1CD ANA 28749 $18.99

La Magnifique: Flute Music for the Court of Louis XIVThis program portrays the ‘birth’ of the flute in France in the late 17th century and the following 40 years of its life as a new and fashionable instrument. From the early petites pièces to more virtuoso suites and sonatas with their ornamented lyricism and grand dance rhythms, the mellow, robust and almost husky sounds of flutes from this period blend and weave around each other like the voices of two singers.

1CD NXS 8579083 $12.99

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 / Barthold Kuijken, Immanuel Davis, Donald Livingston

Sony Classical announces the release of Symphony No. 7 – the long-awaited sister-recording to Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna’s Beethoven Symphony No. 5 album. The Times defines this as “one of those incendiary accounts that blows away the crust of familiarity to suggest anew the revolutionary force built into this master score.” For Currentzis, the Seventh has ‘the greatest form ever achieved in a symphony’.

1CD SNYC 19439743772 $14.99

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Left Coast Chamber EnsembleThe provocative and beguiling Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) comprises the crème de la crème of the San Francisco Bay Area’s musicians. Their motto: nothing is out of bounds, and anything is possible. A select group of musicians come together for this recording of Olivier Messiaen’s seminal chamber work, Quartet for the End of Time, written during the composer’s confinement in World War II.

1CD AIE 2452 $15.99

Violins of Hope / Kay Stern, Dawn Harris, Patricia Heller, Emil Miland

Violins of Hope presents instruments that were owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, representing strength and optimism for the future during mankind’s darkest hour. On this album, recorded live at Kohl Mansion, the instruments are used to perform two string quartet masterpieces by Schubert and Mendelssohn, alongside a new composition by Jake Heggie, inspired by the violins’ histories.

1SACD PTE 5186879 $19.99French Music for the Stage / Neeme Järvi, Estonian National SOFor their latest album, Neeme Järvi and his Estonian National Symphony Orchestra present a delightful program of lesser-known stage music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Overtures by Thomas, Auber, and Boieldieu were all composed for works staged at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and are wonderful examples of the period.

1CD CHAN 20151 $18.99

Variations / Clare Hammond, pianoFor her fifth release on BIS, Clare Hammond has constructed an adventurous program of 20th and 21st-century variations for piano.

1SACD BIS 2493 $19.99

Martinů: Works for Cello and Piano / Nouzovsky, Sekera [2 CDs]This release features Bohuslav Martinů’s works for cello and piano performed by Petr Nouzovský, recognized as one of Europe’s eminent cellists of his generation, and great pianist Miroslav Sekera.

2CD ARCO 0229 $24.99

NEW CLASSICAL RELEASES IN BRIEF

Reflections / Pablo Ferrández, celloOne of the most charismatic and exciting talents of his generation, Tchaikovsky Prize-winning Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández has been hailed for his “exhilarating musicality” (LA Times ).

1CD SNYC 19439853782 $14.99

Last Silence / Paul Schoenfield, pianoPerformed by the trio for whom it was written, Paul Schoenfield’s new composition “Last Silence” picks up where “Cafe Music” left off. A show stopping tour de force of excitement and emotion.

1CD AZI 71334 $16.99


Recommended New Titles

SPRING RECOMMENDATIONS

RecommendationsSpring Classical

Rachmaninoff: Symphonies and Orchestral Music / Singapore SO [4 CDs]Sergei Rachmaninov was one of the 20th century’s outstanding pianists, but the large body of purely orchestral music he composed is no less an expression of his musical character. With this 4-disc box set, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra presents a comprehensive collection of Rachmaninov’s music for orchestra – from the Scherzo in D minor to the canonical works: the Symphonies and the Symphonic Dances.

4SACD BIS 2512 $79.99

Arvo Pärt: Miserere / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Howard ArmanThe Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, born in 1935, has succeeded in bringing sacred music back to a broader audience, more than almost any other contemporary composer. The meditative character of his works convey moments of intense spirituality. This new release features five works for choir as well as two for instrumental ensemble, covering all of the composer’s creative epochs between 1986 and 2019.

1CD BRK 900527 $14.99

Horn Discoveries / Sarah Willis, French hornIn this re-release of the 2014 album, Horn Discoveries, Sarah Willis demonstrates all the rich potential of her instrument with exciting original compositions and beautiful arrangements of well-loved repertoire pieces such as Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Dvořák’s Humoresque, Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles and Debussy’s Clair de Lune.

1CD AHP 732 $18.99

Spain / Franz Halász, guitarFranz Halász is a highly acclaimed guitarist who here makes his contribution to the repertoire of his instrument, with his own arrangements of de Falla and Isaac Albéniz. This release also includes Tárrega’s Recuerdos de la Alhambra as well as Joaquín Turina’s Guitar Sonata, here recorded – for the first time – from a copy of Turina’s original manuscript, and not Segovia’s published version with numerous changes.

1SACD BIS 2565 $18.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, and 6; Romeo and Juliet / Wiener Philharmonic [2 CDs]

Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies are strangely not included in Kubelik’s discography. This album proposes a rare live recording with the same quality as that of a studio. The present release showcases Kubelik with the Weiner Philharmonic, as they perform Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, and 6, as well as Romeo and Juliet. The original recordings were made in 1960 and 1955.

2CD URA 121391 $29.99

Rouse: Symphony No. 5 / Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero

2021 GRAMMY winner! Few contemporary artists have been as significant as Pulitzer Prize winner Christopher Rouse. The Concerto for Orchestra is a ‘hyper-concerto’ that gives each player a chance to shine, while the mournful intimacy and passion of Supplica unfolds somewhat like the slow movement of a Bruckner or Mahler symphony.

1CD NXS 8559852 $12.99

Songs of Comfort & Hope / Kathryn Stott, Yo-Yo Ma

Featuring 21 new recordings, Songs of Comfort & Hope includes fresh arrangements of traditional folk tunes, pop songs, and jazz standards to mainstays from the western classical repertoire. Yo-Yo Ma notes: “The songs on the album bring a sense of community, identity, and purpose, crossing boundaries and binding us together in thanks, consolation, and encouragement.”

1CD SNYC 982237 $16.99

Piazzola Reflections / Ksenija Sidorova, accordion

Riga-born Ksenija Sidorova is today one of the most eminent global ambassadors of the classical accordion. Here she pays homage to Piazzolla in her own way, describing ‘Piazzolla the revolutionary, the ground-breaker, a man thinking ahead of his time.’ The program is completed by the Nocturne of Italian accordionist-composer Pietro Roffi and a piece by Sergey Akhunov.

1CD AHP 664 $18.99

New Year’s Concert: The Complete Works (Extended Edition) [26 CDs]

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the greatest media event in classical music, Sony Classical released in 2015 a complete edition of all the works ever played at the Wiener Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Concerts. These iconic live performances were issued for the first time in a single box set of 23 CDs. Now, this new edition is available as a 26-CD extended version, containing new repertoire from the last five years.

26CD SNYC 19439764562 $64.99

Ultimate Recordings – Soloists and Conductors / Various Artists [2 CDs)This delightful Orfeo sampler combines highlights tracks of historical recordings with today’s global stars. Disc one is dedicated to “Soloists and Conductors,” while disc two focuses on “Legendary Voices”. Artists include Júlia Várady, Renate Behle, Edita Gruberová, Carlo Bergonzi, Marjana Lipovšek, Grace Bumbry and more.

2CD ORF 200032 $14.99

Mahler: 10 / Osmo Vänskä; Minnesota Orchestra

Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler’s Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians. Deryck Cooke’s performing version of the symphony is the one that Osmo Vänskä has chosen to use for the seventh installment in his and the Minnesota

Orchestra’s Mahler series, a cycle characterized by an unusual transparency and clarity of sound as well as musical conception.

1SACD BIS 2396 $19.99 Occurrence / Iceland Symphony

Orchestra (Blu-ray + CD) [2 CDs]Occurrence is the third in a hugely illuminating series devoted to works by contemporary Icelandic composers, as performed by Iceland’s 70-year-old national orchestra. In addition to Daniel Bjarnason, we hear new works from Þuríður Jónsdóttir, whose Flow and Fusion opened the initial

disc, Recurrence, and from Haukur Tomasson, whose Piano Concerto No. 2 was a highlight of the second release in the series, Concurrence.

2CD SUIN 92243 $16.99 Onslow (1784–1853): String Quintets 4,

Nos. 23 and 31 / Elan QuartetGeorges Onslow is best known for a body of chamber music that follows the musical lineage of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. A master of the quintet medium, Onslow offered variations of ensemble to players, the two presented here being cast for string quartet and double bass. The tempestuous Quintet No. 23 in A minor is charged with almost ceaseless nervous energy and Schubertian lyricism.

1CD NXS 8574187 $12.99 Friedrich Gulda: The SWR Studio Recordings

1953 and 1968 [2 CDs]Gulda, a brilliant master of rhythm, uncompromising Bach interpreter and jazz musician, is in the best keeping with Chopin. Works by Chopin appear in Gulda’s concert programs from quite early on. His secret in playing Chopin with so much vitality? It is the inimitable mix of rhythmic strictness, most cantabile tenderness and controlled outbursts of emotion.

2CD SWRM 19097 $24.99 Music from Proust’s Salons /

Steven Isserlis and Connie ShihWith this program of music for cello and piano, Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih transport us to the world immortalized in Marcel Proust’s a la recherche du temps perdu – the Parisian high society and its glittering salons. For the composers of the time these provided a perfect platform for the introduction of new works, performed by the finest musicians in France for a sympathetic, and educated audience.

1SACD BIS 2522 $19.99

Bach: Goldberg Variations / Malcolm Archer, harpsichord

The present release is a new recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’, performed by world-renowned musician Malcolm Archer on a harpsichord built by Alan Gotto. Archer has had a distinguished career in church music which has taken him to the posts of Organist

and Director of Music at three English Cathedrals: Bristol, Wells and St. Paul’s, and for eleven years, Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College.

1CD CVVM 064 $16.99

Nordic Rhapsody / Johan Dalene, violin; Christian Ihle Hadland, piano

Only 20 years old, Johan Dalene has already been hailed as ‘a musician of special sensibilities’ (Gramophone ) in possession of ‘a rare fire’ (Diapason ), and his debut disc, with the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Barber, was described as ‘one of the finest violin debuts of the last decade’ (BBC Music Magazine ) For

his second album, the Swedish violinist has chosen repertoire closer to home, with works by six Nordic composers.

1SACD BIS 2560 $19.99

Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 2 / Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams

This is the second in a series of four albums recording all 80 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 80 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements. It includes Folk Songs collected from the Southern Appalachian Mountains by

Maud Karpeles and Cecil Sharp in 1916 to 1918, arranged by Vaughan Williams with piano accompaniment in about 1938.

1CD ALBN 043 $17.99

Not Our First Goat Rodeo / Yo-Yo Ma; Stuart Duncan; Edgar Meyer; Chris Thile

Following the success of the GRAMMY award-winning album ‘The Goat Rodeo Sessions’, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile return with their sensational new album Not Our First Goat Rodeo. This release combines the talents of the four solo artists, each a GRAMMY Award-winning talent in his own right, to create a singular sound that’s part composed, part improvised, and uniquely American.1CD SNYC 19439738552 $14.99

Harp Concertos / Various Artists [5 CDs]The harp is an ancient instrument, with origins in the antiquity of perhaps many civilizations. This attractive set of 17 works for harp concertante by 16 composers chronicles the instrument’s arrival and increasing acceptance on the orchestral stage. Many of the 18th-century works included here feature the harp for extra-musical reasons or as an alternate instrument to a keyboard.

5CD BLC 96102 $17.99


SONY CLASSICAL MASTERS

Masters BoxesSony Classical

Rudolf Buchbinder plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Nos. 1–32 [9 CDs]9CD SNYC 19439800552

$29.99

Alexander Brailowsky plays Chopin [5 CDs]

5CD SNYC 19075920602$23.99

David Zinman conducts Strauss [7 CDs]7CD SNYC 19075945482

$25.99

Vladimir Horowitz: The Chopin Collection [7 CDs]

7CD SNYC 19439704382$25.99

Eugene Ormandy conducts Shostakovich [3 CDs]

3CD SNYC 19439704792$20.99

Bernstein conducts Mahler – Complete Symphonies [12 CDs]

12CD SNYC 19439708562$35.99

Murray Perahia plays Schubert and Brahms [8 CDs]

8CD SNYC 19439788352$25.99

Pierre Boulez conducts Debussy [5 CDs]

5CD SNYC 19439787742$23.99

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1–9; Missa Solemnis [6 CDs]6CD SNYC 19075964772

$24.99

George Szell conducts Dvořák & Smetana [7 CDs]

7CD SNYC 19075921662$25.99

Rudolf Serkin plays Bach – Harpsichord Concertos [3 CDs]

3CD SNYC 19075921682$20.99

David Zinman conducts Mahler – Symphonies Nos. 1–10 [15 CDs]

15CD SNYC 19075816402$39.99

Pinchas Zukerman plays Vivaldi [6 CDs]

6CD SNYC 88985370982$24.99

Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart – Symphonies Nos. 23, 25, 28,

29, 21, 35, 36 [5 CDs]5CD SNYC 19075816312

$23.99

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Sacred Masterworks [16 CDs]

16CD SNYC 19439787772$39.99

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives –

Symphonies Nos. 1–4 [4 CDs]4CD SNYC 19439788332

$23.99

Charles Gerhardt conducts Classic Film Scores [12 CDs]

12CD SNYC 19075920642$35.99

The Budapest String Quartet plays Brahms [4 CDs]

4CD SNYC 19439789332$23.99

Bernstein conducts Tchaikovsky [5 CDs]

5CD SNYC 19439709652$23.99

Jukka-Pekka Saraste Conducts Sibelius [8 CDs]8CD SNYC 19439704812

$25.99

Matthias Kirschnereit plays Mozart – The Complete

Original Concertos for Piano and Orchestra, Nos. 1–27 [10 CDs]

10CD SNYC 19439792922$31.49

The Juilliard String Quartet plays Beethoven – The Complete String Quartets Nos. 1–16 [9 CDs]

9CD SNYC 19075964442$29.99

Alicia de Larrocha plays Mozart – Piano Concertos [6 CDs]6CD SNYC 19439709642

$24.99

Leonard Slatkin conducts Haydn Symphonies Nos. 93–104 [4 CDs]

4CD SNYC 88985465502$23.99

L’Archibudelli plays Beethoven – Piano Trios; Serenade, Op. 8 [5 CDs]5CD SNYC 19075964792

$23.99

Peter Serkin plays Mozart – Piano Concertos

Nos. 10 and 14–19 [6 CDs]6CD SNYC 19075879582

$24.99

Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach & Boccherini [6 CDs]

6CD SNYC 19075816322$24.99

Eugene Ormandy conducts Richard Strauss [4 CDs]4CD SNYC 19439709532

$23.99

John Williams plays Bach – The Complete Lute Music on

Guitar [4 CDs]4CD SNYC 19075816392

$23.99

Thomas Quasthoff: The Complete RCA Recordings

[4 CDs]4CD SNYC 19075818902

$23.99


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Boxed SetsNew Classical Hélène Boschi plays Bach, Couperin, Soler, Rameau, Haydn, Mozart

[10 CDs]Francophone Swiss pianist Hélène Boschi’s repertoire was broad-based, ranging from the Baroque to contemporary music. One notable fact about Boschi is that she was the first female pianist to record the complete piano and chamber works of Clara Schumann. This 10-CD compilation presents Hélène Boschi as an acclaimed solo pianist, as a chamber musician and as a concert artist and keyboard accompanist.

10CD PRF 20075 $41.99

Artur Balsam plays Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Hindemith [10 CDs]Pianist and music teacher Artur Balsam was born in Warsaw on February 8, 1906. Balsam matured into a sought-after partner at the piano: having won the Mendelssohn Prize together with the violinist Roman Totenberg. After settling in New York in 1940, made a name for himself on the American chamber music scene and was the favorite accompanist of many famous soloists.

10CD PRF 21004 $41.99

Louis Kentner plays Brahms, Bartók, Walton, Balakirew, Dvořák [10 CDs]This 10-album compilation illustrates Louis Kentner as a successful soloist, chamber musician and concert pianist. Highly gifted musically, Kentner gave the first Hungarian performance of Béla Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto in London in 1946, and the first performance in Europe of the composer’s Third Piano Concerto under Sir Adrian Boult. Bartók’s artistic oeuvre found a special place in Kentner’s heart.

10CD PRF 20085 $41.99

The Complete Grainger Edition / Various Artists [21 CDs]

Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the death in 1961 of Percy Grainger, The Complete Grainger Edition contains all 21 Chandos albums of his works in a luxurious boxed set. The Australian-born composer and pianist was one of music’s most original voices and his compositions, especially his arrangements of folksongs, include some of the world’s most well-loved pieces.

21CD CHA 20196 $79.99

Piazzolla: Complete Tango! / Isabelle Van Keulen Ensemble [3 CDs]

A series of high-quality concerts launched the success story of the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble. From the very beginning, the Ensemble has been dazzling its audiences through its depth of musical expression, its technical brilliance and the simultaneous mixture of melancholy and severity which is so typical of the Tango Nuevo, pairing great joy in playing with intimacy.

3CD CHL 72873 $19.99

Salgado (1903–1977): The 9 Symphonies / Michael Meissner, Cuenca SO [3 CDs]

Despite being the leading composer of his native Ecuador, the name and reputation of Luis Humberto Salgado (1903–1977) has hardly travelled beyond South America. His symphonies were composed from 1949 to 1975: works of maturity, not outlandishly but colorfully orchestrated, originally structured (the Second and Ninth each in a single movement), yet crafted with a fastidious ear.

3CD BLC 96256 $14.99

Mozart: Complete Keyboard Sonatas / Kristian Bezuidenhout [9 CDs]

This boxed set collects all 9 discs in fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout universally acclaimed Mozart Keyboard Music cycle. Praised by Gramophone as “interpretations of today” and BBC Music Magazine for bringing “out all the drama and intensity,” this survey is now the benchmark standard for these works.

9CD HAR 2904007 $44.99

Richard Strauss: Complete Tone Poems / François-Xavier Roth [5 CDs]

Strauss’ boisterous self-confidence allowed him the conviction that a different ‘formula’ would enable him to roll out his musical imagination with inimitable style. The SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg recorded all ten tone poems, as well as Strauss’ musical epitaph Metamorphosen, between 2012 and 2016. These recordings are available here in an exquisite 5-album box set .

5CD SWRM 19426 $34.99

Cello Sonatas Edition / Various Artists [33 CDs]Graceful, lyrical and with a deep timbre capable of expressing the most profound emotions, the cello has enjoyed a fruitful existence at the heart of orchestras, quartets and other ensembles, as well as as a solo instrument. This anthology surveys the myriad of sonatas written for the instrument, from the first cello compositions by Baroque composers Jacchini and D. Gabrielli to the boundary-pushing sonatas of the 20th century.

33CD BLC 96012 $79.99

Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano Trio / Van Baerle Trio [5 CDs]The young Van Baerle Trio, made of stunning soloists – Hannes Minnaar on piano, Maria Milstein on violin and Gideon den Herder on cello – have accomplished the Beethoven’s Piano Trio recordings. Now, Challenge Classics releases a box including the five volumes of their remarkable survey. It includes the three youthful Trios Op. 1, the two great Trios Op. 70, the absolute masterpiece which is the Trio Op. 97, named ‘Archduke’.

5CD CHL 72847 $29.99

Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Legacy / The Philadelphia Orchestra [120 CDs]

Granting a long-held wish of many record collectors, Sony Classical presents the complete monaural American Columbia discography of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in a vast box set of 120 CDs, all in new remasterings. Almost all of this material appears for the first time on CD with Sony Classical. Indeed, 152 of these recordings have never been released at all on CD before now.

120CD SNYC 19439757482 $299.99

Russian Orthodox Choral Music / Various Artists [6 CDs]A history of Russian Orthodox sacred music from the ‘Moscow Baroque’ to the present day, including many rare and long unavailable recordings. This new set brings together sacred choral music by Russian composers: Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Bortniansky, Gretchaninov, Kastalsky, Kalinnikov, Ippolitov-Ivanov and many others. Performed by the best Russian choirs, such as the Rybin Choir and the Dumka Choir.

6CD BLC 95969 $19.99

Rudolf Schock Vol. 2 – Opera in German / Rudolf Schock [10 CDs]German tenor Rudolf Schock made his debut in 1937, going on to work with some of the truly great conductors of his time such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Georg Solti, George SzeII and Karl Böhm. He concurrently and consistently expanded his repertoire in both directions, into operetta and into the works of the contemporary avant-garde, and was one of the first German singers to be invited to London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

10CD PRF 20066 $41.99

Peter Heise: Songs / Various Artists [11 CDs]Long regarded by Danish musicians as their secret treasure, the songs of Peter Heise perfectly represent the unique qualities and achievements of the Danish Golden Age. No longer a secret, these songs can now take their rightful place alongside the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Christen Kobke, Soren Kierkegaard and so many others.

11CD DACO 8201101 $52.99

Idil Biret: Best of Chamber Music / Various Artists [4 CD]

Idil Biret’s chamber music performances are relatively rare. Highlights on this 4-disc set include Beethoven’s violin Sonatas Nos. 5, 7 and 9, the Schumann and Brahms’ Piano Quintets, Mendelssohn’s 1st Piano Trio and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor. This set includes some of the memorable chamber music performances from across her career.

4CD NXS 8504057 $16.99

Liszt: Piano Works / Alfredo Perl [4 CDs]This collection contains the most important recordings by Alfredo Perl with piano works by Franz Liszt. A special highlight is the recording of the piano concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Alfredo Perl studied with Carlos Botto at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Günter Ludwig at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and Maria Curcio in London.

4CD OEH 1900 $26.99

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Quintessence Dvořák – Complete Piano Music /

Inna Poroshina, piano [5 CDs]5CD BLC 96193

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Quintessence Locatelli – Complete Violin Concertos / Igor Ruhadze, violin [5 CDs]

5CD BLC 96194$14.99

Quintessence Tchaikovsky – Complete Ballets / Royal

Philharmonic Orchestra [5 CDs]5CD BLC 96195

$14.99

Quintessence Handel – Complete Organ Concertos /

Christian Schmitt, organ [5 CDs]5CD BLC 96196

$14.99

Quintessence Bach: Famous Concertos / Pieter-Jan

Belder, harpsichord [5 CDs]5CD BLC 96197 $14.99

NEW QUINTESSENCE SETS FROM BRILLIANT CLASSICS!Brilliant Classics proudly presents 5 more titles in the exciting 5-album sets series:

QUINTESSENCE, attractively priced compact box sets containing essential core classical repertoire in outstanding performances. It presents the pillars of classical music: Dvořák’s Complete Piano Music, Locatelli’s Complete Violin

Concertos, Tchaikovsky’s Complete Ballets, Handel’s Complete Organ Concertos and J.S. Bach’s Famous Concertos. A great series at an unbeatable price!

Prokoviev: Complete Symphonies / Marin Alsop; São Paulo Symphony Orchestra [6 CDs]

Sergey Prokofiev’s seven symphonies are acknowledged as one of the major cycles of the 20th century, and these recordings with Marin Alsop and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra have received widespread critical acclaim. From the crisp vitality of the youthful ‘Classical’ Symphony to the viscerally exciting Third, this is an unforgettable collection crowned by the bittersweet Seventh Symphony, the composer’s final significant work.

6CD NXS 8506038 $38.99


Classical Boxed SetsNAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS

Naxos American Classics 3 for $30 Deal! John Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives /

Nashville SO, Giancarlo GuerreroPulitzer and Erasmus Prize-winning composer John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of their themes. Adams describes My Father Knew Charles Ives as “an homage and encomium to a composer whose influence on me has been huge.”

1CD NXS 8559854 $12.99

Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 / John Jeter, Fort Smith SymphonyThe concert in 1933 at which Florence Price’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor was premiered was the first time a major American orchestra had performed a piece written by an African American woman. Influenced by Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor, she drew on the wellspring of Negro spirituals and vernacular dances, full of lyricism and syncopation. The Symphony No. 4 in D minor demonstrates her tight ensemble writing.

1CD NXS 8559827 $12.99

Steve Reich: Eight Lines – City Life – Vermont Counterpoint / Delphine Roche; Klaus Simon

Steve Reich is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost exponents of minimalism, arguably the most significant stylistic trend in late 20th-century music. This chronological survey shows how Reich’s innate curiosity has taken his work far beyond such musical boundaries. One of the first fruits of Reich’s creative quest is ‘Music for Two or More Pianos,’ in which the influence of Morton Feldman and jazz pianist Bill Evans can be heard.

1CD NXS 8559682 $12.99

Negro Folk Symphony, Fantasy Variations / William Dawson, Ulysses KayWilliam Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934 to huge enthusiasm. Its traditional form houses a continuous process of variation and introduces little-known spirituals in fragmentary form, while the work’s recurring motifs, remarkable transitions and syncopations are enhanced in Dawson’s 1952 revision heard here.

1CD NXS 8559870 $12.99

Bernstein: Songfest / Gershwin: An American in Paris

An American in Paris is one of Gershwin’s most vivacious works, an orchestral ballet saturated in homesickness and the blues. This recording, however, uses the new 2019 critical edition and offers Gershwin’s original orchestration, unheard for 75 years – leaner, more angular and transparent, it also employs the correct use of the iconic taxi horns, for a new sonic experience.

1CD NXS 8559859 $12.99

Herrmann: Whitman, Souvenirs de voyage / Gil-Ordóñez, PostClassical EnsembleBernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version.

1CD NXS 8559883 $12.99

Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 – Wood Notes / John Jeter, Fort Smith Symphony

Wood Notes musically depicts composer William Grant’s love of nature. Symphony No. 2, the last of a trilogy of works depicting the African-American experience, presents the vision of an integrated American society, while Symphony No. 3 describes a spiritual ‘day in the life’ of a devout worshipper. This disc completes the Naxos cycle of William Grant Still’s symphonies.

1CD NXS 8559676 $12.99

Morton Gould: Symphonettes Nos. 2–4 / ORF Vienna Radio SOMorton Gould was an American musical phenomenon, equally at home in classical, crossover and film genres, and the recipient of both GRAMMY and Pulitzer awards during his long and distinguished career. The Symphonettes represent Gould’s best crossover work – the Symphonette No. 4 deriving its character from Latin-American dance forms to make it one of his most popular compositions.

1CD NXS 8559869 $12.99

Michael Daughterty: This Land Sings / The Life and Times of Woody GuthrieIn This Land Sings, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has created an original musical tribute to the singer-songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie (1912–1967).

1CD NXS 8559889 $12.99

Gershwin: Concerto in F / Harbison: Remembering Gatsby / Kevin Cole, David Alan Miller, NOIPThis program represents American orchestral music in all of its verve and expressive variety. John Harbison’s Remembering Gatsby is a foxtrot that evokes the sonorities of 1920s dance bands.

1CD NXS 8559875 $12.99

Runestad: Sing, Wearing the Sky / Kantorei, Joel RinsemaOn this album, Jake Runestad explores a profound sea/life journey in The Secret of the Sea, and projects a powerful expression of grief in Let My Love Be Heard. Nature is a recurring theme for the composer.

1CD NXS 8559892 $12.99

Kernis: Color Wheel, Symphony No. 4, ‘Chromelodeon’ / Nashville SOBoth works on this album exemplify Aaron Jay Kernis’ creative approach to orchestral composition, sharing elements in common, such as virtuoso percussion writing and the use of variation form.

1CD NXS 8559838 $12.99

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Rachmaninoff: Complete Piano Music / Various Artists [8 CDs]

8CD BLC 96185$22.99

Fritz Wunderlich: Sacred Music /

Various Artists [7 CDs]7CD SWRM 19095

$44.99

British String Quartets – Works by Alwyn, Bax, Bliss /

Maggini Quartet [20 CDs]20CD NXS 8502021

$72.99

Karlsruher Schule / Various Artists [3 CDs]

3CD CAP 7367$27.99

The Early Music Collection / Peter Breiner; Slovak SO [30 CDs]

30CD NXS 8503297$59.99

Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3 & Op. 6 / Akademie für Alte

Musik Berlin [3 CDs]3CD PTE 5186271

$24.99

Fritz Reiner: Complete Columbia Album Collection [14 CDs]14CD SNYC 19075936772

$62.99

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies /

Ádám Fischer; Danish Chamber Orchestra [5 CDs]5CD NXS 8505251

$38.99

Villa-Lobos: Complete Symphonies / São Paulo SO [6 CDs]

6CD NXS 8506039$38.99

Baroque / Various Artists [25 CDs]

25CD BLC 95886$69.99

Beethoven: String Quartets / The Juilliard String Quartet [9 CDs]

9CD SNYC 19075992332$51.49

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen /

Jaap van Zweden; Hong Kong PO [14 CDs]

14CD NXS 8501403$58.49

The Haydn Edition / Various Artists [160 CDs]

160CD BLC 95594$199.99

Beethoven: The Piano Concertos / Stephen Hough [3 CDs]

3CD HYP 68291$28.99

Philharmonia Orchestra: Birth of a Legend / Furtwängler;

Guilini; Klemperer [24 CDs]24CD WRNC 534951

$97.99

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for $30 Deal!New Naxos 3 Gregson: Instrumental Music / Paul Janes, piano

Edward Gregson’s career has followed two parallel paths, one to the top tier of music education and the other towards the international reputation he now enjoys as a composer. This representative selection is Gregson’s own and spans more than half a century, from the youthful exuberance of his Oboe Sonata specially prepared versions of two of his most evocative compositions, Three Matisse Impressions and Love Goddess.

1CD NXS 8574224 $12.99

Schumann: Romances, Ballads and Duets / Melzer, Vondung, Bode, EisenlohrSchumann’s literary background and cultivated tastes mean that any such collection of his songs reads like a catalogue of the greatest poets of his time, with the tragic narratives of Mörike and Heine in the Romanzen und Balladen, Op. 64 as powerful as any opera. The Zweistimmige Lieder, Op.43 was the first that he composed after his marriage to Clara Wieck, and many of the songs from this time set texts on the subject of love.

1CD NXS 8574119 $12.99

Schubert: 30 Minuets with Trios / Daniel Lebhardt, pianoDances were an important element in Schubert’s compositions. He favored the Ländler, triple time country dances – perfect material for Viennese middle-class tastes – and the Écossaise, supposedly Scottish, cast in duple time. The 30 Minuets with Trios sport especially captivating and varied Trios, while the two Écossaises from the German Dances, D.783 are vivacious examples of Schubert’s genial mastery of the genre.

1CD NXS 8574145 $12.99

Breiner: A Journey – Calm Romantic Piano Music, Vol. 2 / Peter Breiner; Royal PO

Slovak-born Peter Breiner is one of the world’s most versatile musicians. In the second of Breiner’s Calm Romantic Piano Music series, he again achieves the rare feat of fusing melodic beauty with genuine musical expression. These beguiling original pieces sit alongside serenely beautiful new arrangements drawn from the classical repertoire.

1CD NXS 8574257 $12.99

Saint-Saëns: Ascanio – Ballet / Overtures / Jun Märkl; Malmö SO

Saint-Saëns’ operatic works contain instrumental music of vivacity and charm but have been undeservedly overlooked. Ascanio contains a substantial and elaborate divertissement that fellow composer Reynaldo Hahn termed ‘the entire Renaissance in a few pages’. Les Barbares, a tale of conquest and revenge, includes a vivid Prologue and joyful ballet, while La Jota aragonese shows the composer at his most generously carefree.

1CD NXS 8574033 $12.99

Dvořák: Spirit of Bohemia / Fine Arts QuartetAntonín Dvořák’s music, imbued with the spirit of Bohemia, reflects a love of his native land. His String Sextet, written in the distinctive style which brought him international fame, was an immediate success at its premiere. Composed just eight years earlier, his String Quartet No. 4 features pioneering, wild outer movements, highly unusual for the time, which foreshadowed the modernist innovations of composers decades later.

1CD NXS 8574205 $12.99

Schubert: Ländler, Minuets and Écossaises / Daniel Lebhardt

Social and musical life in Biedermeier Vienna during the first decade of the 19th century created a great demand for dances which took place in the residences of wealthy citizens. With their echoes of the Austrian countryside Schubert’s folk-type Ländler are dances in 3/4 time, precursors of the waltz. Composed towards the end of Schubert’s life, the sets of 16 and 17 Ländler are notable for their melodic inventiveness.

1CD NXS 8574277 $12.99Fibich: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 / Marek Štilec, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra

Zdeněk Fibich’s three symphonies project very different qualities: No. 1 prizes structural integration, and No. 2 cyclical unity. Symphony No. 3, written only two years before his untimely death, but at the zenith of his powers as one of the Czech Lands’ leading composers, reveals Fibich’s sustained melodic and atmospheric powers as the music pursues the ‘darkness to light’ trajectory synonymous with the symphony during the 19th century.

1CD NXS 8574120 $12.99Gragnani: Masterful Guitar Duos, Duos Nos. 1–3 for Two Guitars / Jorgan Skogmo, Jens Franke

Little is known about the Italian guitarist-composer Filippo Gragnani, but he had a reputation as a ‘skilled concert player’, and composed his Duos for Two Guitars in the troubled post-revolutionary city of Paris. Aimed at professional players, the Duos stand as a testament to Gragnani’s virtuoso technique and vivid imagination while presenting the utmost in stylistic taste and refinement.

1CD NXS 8579090 $12.99

The Art of the Modern Trumpet, Vol. 2 / Huw Morgan, trumpet; Rebecca Wilt, pianoThe second volume of this series visits 20th-century France, where the combination of trumpet and piano inspired music of ravishing beauty, intimacy and wit. Through the bluesy retrospection of Jean Hubeau’s Sonata and the voluptuous rhapsody of Florent Schmitt’s Suite, this album explores the quintessentially Gallic sonorities that came to re-define the instrument’s voice for the modern era.

1CD NXS 8574129 $12.99

Luxembourg Contemporary Music, Vol. 1 / Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph KönigIn the last decade Luxembourgian composers have written a vivid body of orchestral music that takes in a wide range of inspirations. Ivan Boumans explores the field of biology in Meiosis where the music undergoes transformations, whereas for Roland Wiltgen it is celestial mechanics that drives Orbital Resonances. The idea of transformation is also important to Marco Pütz as he generates exciting ‘chordal clusters’.

1CD NXS 8579059 $12.99

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 and 17 / Alan Goldstein, piano; Fine Arts Quartet

Mozart himself had arranged four of his earlier concertos for the ensemble of piano, string quartet and bass, to enable his works to be performed domestically. The concertos here are K.271 ‘Je-unehomme’, a particularly brilliant work, and the charming K.453. Leaving the piano part

untouched, conductor Ignaz Lachner ingeniously incorporates all the orchestral music, including wind parts, into his string transcriptions.

1CD NXS 8574164 $12.99Trombone Travels, Vol. 2 / Matthew Gee, trombone, Christopher Glynn, pianoThis second volume of Trombone Travels continues with Matthew Gee’s exploration of three great cycles of early 20th-century British song. Elgar’s Sea Pictures evoke lullaby and turbulence alike, Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel chart a wanderer’s lonely journey through the landscape, and in Songs of the Sea Stanford’s music embraces both the somber and the exhilarating.

1CD NXS 8579080 $12.99The Colourful Telemann / Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Barthold Kuijken

The Colourful Telemann presents works from different periods of Georg Philipp Telemann’s life, reflecting his lively personality and exploring his seemingly unlimited invention over a wide variety of styles and genres. A contemporary of Bach and Handel, Telemann wrote music that stands out for its delightful and remarkably generous character, each piece like a leisurely walk with a good friend.

1CD NXS 8573900 $12.99

Janáček: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 – Sonnets / New Zealand String QuartetJanáček’s final decade saw an almost unprecedented creative renewal during which he wrote some of his greatest works. Among them were his chamber music masterpieces, the two String Quartets. The first was inspired by Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata. The second was subtitled Intimate Letters. Originally cast for four violins, the two youthful Sonnets date from 1875 and balance the archaisms of the first with the lyricism of the second.

1CD NXS 8574209 $12.99Crossing the Americas / Mare Duo, Annika Hinsche, mandolin; Fabian Hinsche, guitar

This carefully selected program presents some of the best original music written for mandolin and guitar, showing both instruments as equal chamber music partners in works both challenging and beautiful. The Duo’s surprising range and variety of timbre can be heard from Funk Pearson’s highly atmospheric

Mountain Moor, and the intercultural sketches by Thomas Allen LeVines, to Guido Santórsola’s lyrical Sonata No. 6.

1CD NXS 8574060 $12.99Saint-Saëns: Music for Wind Ensemble / Royal Air Force College BandSaint-Saëns wrote few works for winds, but the grand biblical themes of Samson et Dalila, patriotic military traditions and the dignity of a British coronation all lend themselves perfectly to arrangement. In The Carnival of the Animals, the roaring lions are superbly evocative; while his perspectives on English and Scottish dances in ballet movements from Henry VIII are brilliantly imaginative.

1CD NXS 8574234 $12.99Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy / Goran Filipec, piano; Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra, Imre Kollár

Franz Liszt had an overwhelming impact on the musical life of his time through revolutionary innovations in harmony, form and pianistic technique. He regarded his compositions as living entities, always suitable for recycling and reshaping to create new works. This program is an illustration of this practice, with Goran Filipec freely extending and varying the cadenzas in the Hungarian Fantasy.

1CD NXS 8573866 $12.99

Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy – Musical Tributes to Debussy by Various ComposersLe Tombeau de Debussy’: a fascinating compilation of works composed in 1920 as a tribute to Debussy, together with Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello and Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments.

1CD NXS 8573935 $12.99

Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 – Arpeggione Sonata / Alexander Rudin, cello; Erich Höbarth, violinSchubert’s Arpeggione Sonata has today become part of the cello repertoire but it was originally written for the arpeggione, a form of bowed guitar with a unique ethereal sound.

1CD NXS 8573884 $12.99History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 2 / The Brahms TrioThe Russian piano trio reached its apogee with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor. A monumental piece in the repertoire, it was played at Tchaikovsky’s own memorial concert two years after its composition.

1CD NXS 8574113 $12.99

Magnard: Orchestral Works / Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg; Fabrice BollonAlthough Albéric Magnard’s oeuvre is relatively small, the uncompromising perfectionism with which he worked created a catalog that is filled with expansive, complex and beautifully crafted music.

1CD NXS 8574084 $12.99

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New ReleasesCritic’s Choice – Standout

Alrich, Jenkins, Rorem: Concertos for Mallet Instruments / Evelyn Glennie, persussion“The album’s meat is Ned Rorem’s Mallet Concerto in seven titled movements, and it’s the one work where Glennie can show the range and depth of her artistry across four instruments. Rorem’s own vocalise lyricism and broken tonality are all over the piece, from the lamenting clarinet theme that appears in the first movement, ‘A Beginning.’ ” – Gramophone

1CD NXS 8574218 $12.99

And Love Said / Jodie Devos, soprano; Nicolas Krüger, piano“Jodie Devos’s Colorature album of arias by Offenbach was shortlisted for the 2019 Gramophone Recital Award. Devos’s new album (with pianist Nicolas Krüger) covers a wide range of music, including Britten’s On This Island, Gurney’s Five Elizabethan Songs and three songs from Walton’s Façade.” – Gramophone

1CD AHP 668 $18.99

Mahler: Das Klagende Lied / Michael Gielen; ORF Vienna RSO“Finally, a performance of Mahler’s youthful horror story that realizes every gruesome detail with positively sadistic relish. There are other fine versions in the catalog, Tilson Thomas and Chailly especially, but this live version is the most graphic, exciting, and true to Mahler’s youthful vision. Impactful live sound, great singing, great conducting–this is now the one to get.” – Classics Today

1CD ORF 210021 $18.99

Mozart: The Piano Concertos / Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano [12 CDs]

“One of the key revelations that elevates Ronald Brautigam’s fortepiano set of Mozart concertos above many of its rivals is the addition of a version with clarinets, trumpets and timpani of the wonderful Concerto in E flat for two pianos (the first pianist in this case is Alexei Lubimov), which alters the scale of the piece almost to the level of Beethoven.” – Gramophone

12SACD BIS 2544 $119.99

Telemann: Polonoise / Holland Baroque“Holland Baroque, imaginatively directed by Aisslinn Nosky, consists of three violins, viola, cello, lute and harpsichord. The playing is vivacious and full of character. The musical highlights are the two concertos, already mentioned. The artists revel in the drones, unisons and chromaticisms which lend them such distinctive colour. Two movements of particular charm are the Dolce and Largo, a haunting mazurka, of the G major Concerto.” – BBC Music Magazine

1SACD PTE 5186878 $19.99

Schubert: Music for Violin II / Ariadne Daskalakis, violin; Paolo Giacometti, fortepiano

“The first of the early sonatas is a relatively modest piece which reflects Schubert’s love of Mozart. More characteristic and ambitious are the melancholy Second Sonata in A minor, and the warmly lyrical Duo in A major D574, which has one of the most beautiful beginnings among all Schubert’s youthful compositions. Ariadne Daskalakis and Paolo Giacometti, playing on original instruments, give attractive performances of all three sonatas.” – BBC Music

1SACD BIS 2373 $19.99

Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 8 / Wagner: Meistersinger Prelude [2 CDs]

“First create your sound palette, then envision the whole. In this new account of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, Andris Nelsons and his Leipzig players provide a masterclass in the creation of a sound world that perfectly serves their larger purpose.” – Gramophone

2CD DGG B003331702 $29.99

Sweelinck: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music / Daniele Boccaccio, organ and harpsichord [6 CDs]

“This is an outstanding release of music by one of the most famous late 16th-/early 17th-century organist-composers. Sweelinck’s keyboard music is generally only known by a few works, so to have this complete overview from a player of such ability and understanding, on four superb and appropriate instruments is a real pleasure.” – Piano & Organ

6CD BLC 95643 $19.99

David Gompper: Cello Concerto – Double Bass Concerto / Emmanuel Siffert, Royal Philharmonic

“There are otherworldly aspects of varying sorts to the three works, best illustrated by the movement titles. The two movements of the Cello Concerto are named ‘Mnemosyne’ and ‘Lethe’ respectively, literally memory and forgetfulness. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Emmanuel Siffert once again play this tricky and complex with consummate professionalist and, once more, Naxos’s sound is exemplary.” – Gramophone

1CD NXS 8559855 $12.99

Romberg: Violin Concertos / Chouchane Siranossian, violin; Capriccio Baroque Orchestra“A slightly older contemporary of Beethoven, Romberg has suffered the inevitable fate of being sidelined by musical history. The violin was his instrument, and at least 20 concertos are extant, with the musical language moving from the classical world of Mozart and Haydn to something more Beethovenian. Capriccio Barockorchester means business right from the tightly rhythmic opening of the Fourth Concerto...” – BBC Music

1CD AHP 452 $18.99

Liszt / Benjamin Grosvenor, pianoAn ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a gift for fusing both architecture and passion. Benjamin Grosvenor’s interpretation embodies these qualities and then some, splitting the difference between Marc-André Hamelin’s unflappable poise and Joseph Moog’s volatility, to cite two recent reference-worthy contenders. – Gramophone

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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1–10 / Berlin Philharmonic [10 CDs]A multi-conductor cycle of Mahler’s symphonies from the Berlin Philharmonic, beautifully presented as a luxury box set. “In much the same way as the orchestra’s portmanteau Bruckner cycle, the performances of Nos. 1–5 also press harder and cut deeper than their conductors’ recorded versions outside Berlin: an impression perhaps exaggerated by the high-defintion sound.” – Gramophone

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J.S. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier / Piotr Anderszewski, piano

“What we have therefore, is a Bachian equivalent to one of Schumann’s cycles of piano pieces, a Baroque Carnaval or Kreisleriana, if you like. And while purists may recoil in horror at hearing this music presented in what might seem a disruptively wilful order, they ought to be convinced by the sheer intelligence and lucidity of the playing, its immaculate phrasing and minutely graduated range of tone.” – The Guardian

1CD WRNC 511875 $18.99

Labyrinth / Khatia Buniatishvili, piano“Buniatishvili makes turns through Bach, jazz, Romantic music, contemporary pieces, including a large Philip Glass excerpt, and more. Yet for the most part, she maintains the sense of a thread connecting the pieces. Sony’s sound, from the Pierre Boulez Room in the Paris Philharmonie, is ideal. Fans of the fiery Buniatishvili will be intrigued by this new path from the pianist.” – AllMusic

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… and … / Arvo Pärt, Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw, Laude di Cortona

“This beautifully conceived recording opens with two works by Caroline Shaw and Julia Wolfe, interleaved with groups of sacred works by Arvo Pärt as well as six Laude from Cortona in Tuscany. The recording quality is outstanding, creating a remarkably layered, spatial listening experience. This recording offers spiritual revelation and sonic pleasure from start to finish.” – BBC Music Magazine

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Verklärte Nacht – Schoenberg, Fried, Lehár, and Korngold / Christine Rice, mezzo; Stuart Skelton, tenor“More than one piece of headily romantic music was inspired by Richard Dehmel’s 1896 poem Verklärte Nacht. The most familiar remains Schoenberg’s string masterpiece, first conceived as a sextet in 1899, reworked for string orchestra nearly two decades later. This, in its orchestral version finds Edward Gardner drawing playing of sumptuous intensity but also ravishing delicacy from the strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.” – The Guardian

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A Vision of the Sea / David Matthews, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

“His [Matthews] well-placed climaxes never pull their multicoloured punches, with imaginative orchestration admirably conveyed in these finely played and excellently engineered recordings. Rarely have dramatic outbursts of percussion sounded so thrilling, and for once they never overwhelm the rest of the orchestra: the balance here is ideal.” – Gramophone

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Honegger, Schoeck, Mitropoulos: Buried Alive / The Orchestra Now“This is the work that so impressed James Joyce that led him to make the statement that has turned into a quotable favorite when writing about Schoeck, namely that he was Joyce’s favorite composer. If you want to hear what Joyce heard, this recording – only the second since Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s from 1962 – is your best bet.” – Classics Today

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Plaisirs illuminés / Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Camerata Bern“Two of the pieces here were composed for the Camerata, while Alberto Ginastera’s brooding Concerto per Corde fits nicely alongside the Veress…” – The Guardian

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R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra / Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy / Seattle Symphony“We still get the timbres of woodwind and harps adding their splashes of colour; from shrieking piccolo to silky bass lines, as quiet as the grave in Strauss’s first fugue, the dynamic range is impressive.” – BBC Music Magazine

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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 and 10 / Gianandrea Noseda, LSO“There are many excellent versions of the Ninth Symphony, and this is certainly one of them. The opening movement’s wacky development section has plenty of punch…” – Classics Today

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EDITOR’S CHOICE

RecommendedEditor’s Choice – C.P.E. Bach: Piano Concertos Wq. 11, 24, 43/4 /

Michael Rische; Berlin Baroque SoloistsPianist Michael Rische performs these three C.P.E. Bach concertos on a modern piano accompanied by the Berliner Barock Solisten, a modern instrument ensemble founded in 1995 by members of the Berlin Philharmonic. Those who prefer to forgo the sound of the fortepiano will be pleased

to hear Mr. Rische’s sparkling, pearly-toned instrument in these elegant, historically informed performances. Hanssler provides excellent sound with the soloist slightly forward and the orchestra beautifully balanced.

1CD HAN 19041 $18.99

Chamber Works with Guitar by Hans Haug and Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Wind Quintet

The program of this Naxos CD consists of three texturally contrasting works: the little-known Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra by Hans Haug (1900–1967), that same composer’s brief and charming Quintet for Winds, and a relative staple of the guitar chamber

music repertoire, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Quintet for guitar and string quartet of 1950. The works form an appealing program with the excellent Wind Quintet of Haug at its center, between the two works with guitar. Guitarist Marisa Minder performs with the Basel Philharmonic Quintet.

1CD NXS 8551426 $12.99

Bach, Byrd, Gibbons + Contemporary Music / Alexandra Sostmann, piano

Pianist Alexandra Sostmann writes: “I’m interested in the connections between different epochs and their polyphonic structures” and so, in this program which aptly begins and ends with a Ricercar from Bach’s Musical Offering we hear ten strikingly

different contrapuntal vignettes, like so many panes of a stained glass window. The program consists of pieces by Knussen, Byrd, Tavener, Adams, Gibbons, Markus Horn and Xiaoyong Chen. With such a varied program, especially one spanning 429 years, it might be a difficult exercise to try to apply one word to its entirety, but not here; for me, Ms. Sostmann’s program is comforting.

1CD TYXA 20145 $18.99

Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Leo McFall; NDR Radio PO

In her day, Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) was afforded universal commendation for her comprehensive talent as a composer, if from some quarters begrudgingly, because of her gender. She wrote eight symphonies between 1845 and 1857. Her earliest two are classical

conceptions in Romantic garb, in the manner of Schubert and Schumann. Listening to this exceptional music, it struck me as disappointing that so few have advocated her music while at the same time, it is encouraging that those who have – notably CPO and Capriccio – have done so apportioning the artistic production quality the music warrants. This is a splendid issue!

1CD CPO 555293 $16.99

Care Pupille – Handel and Gluck areas / Samuel Mariño, male soprano

Born in 1993, Venezuelan male soprano Samuel Mariño possesses an astonishingly pure, lyrical, and when called for, powerful soprano voice – one not to be missed by any vocal arts enthusiast, and quite possibly, a voice for the decade. Here Mr. Mariño presents his debut album

of sparkling baroque arias by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Georg Frideric Handel, sensitively accompanied by the Händelfestspielorchester Halle under Martin Hofsstetter.

1CD ORF 998201 $18.99

Leó Weiner (1885–1960): Divertimentos Nos. 1 and 2 / Budapest SO

The music of Leó Weiner (1885–1960) reflects the folk music of his native Hungary as did his contemporaries’ Bartók and Kodály, but with a decidedly more Romantic flavor. In fact, listening to this music, while I was often reminded of these two Hungarian masters, there is also an apparent

British influence of other composers for string orchestra – Butterworth, Grainger and Bantock as examples. This Naxos release is volume three of a series of the complete orchestral works by Weiner, knowingly performed by the strings of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Valéria Csányi.

1CD NXS 8574125 $12.99

Nun danket alle Gott – 17th Century Sacred Vocal Works / Julie Roset, soprano

This Ricercar CD affords an intimate encounter between Lutheran music and the Italian Baroque style. Among the hallmarks of this style is the interdependent relationship of the solo vocal line with the accompanying instruments, who frequently enter into a dialog with

it but also are given instrumental sections of their own. The music is by six composers: Bernhard, Buxtehude, Hammerschmidt, Monteverdi, Pfleger and Rosenmüller. Julie Roset is graced with a wonderfully felicitous soprano voice for this exquisite program of delicate, often somber but always engaging music.

1CD RCR 415 $18.99

Love Lives Beyond the Tomb, Songs and Song Cycles by Ian Venables

Born in 1955, British composer Ian Venables is widely acknowledged to be among Britain’s greatest art song composers. Sung by soprano Mary Bevan and tenor Allan Clayton we hear a half-dozen individual songs, a cantata for soprano, tenor, string quartet and piano and a song cycle for

tenor, viola and piano. Encounters I’ve had with Venables’ music in the past have always left me very impressed. As the album title suggests, the music is mournful, and it is beautifully performed by all artists involved.

1CD SIG 617 $17.99

Carl Reinecke: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3; König Manfred / Henry Raudales; Munich RSO

Reinecke’s symphonies are currently available on only a handful of recordings. This CPO issue makes a convincing case for their wider dissemination. Clocking in at over 80 minutes, this generously filled recording offers the Romantic German composer’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3, as well as orchestral

extracts from his opera King Manfred and the Triumphmarsch, Op. 110. Henry Raudales conducts the Munich Radio Orchestra in these impassioned and technically impeccable performances. Having produced over three hundred published works during his lifetime, Reinecke is a composer ripe for discovery by plucky listeners.

1CD CPO 555114 $16.99

Emánuel Moór: Concerto for 2 Cellos and Orchestra

The glorious opening to Emánuel Moór’s Concerto for 2 Cellos & Orchestra sets the stage for a pleasing program that features music for two cellos and orchestra, a sonata for cello and piano, and finally, a suite for four cellos. Little of Moór’s music has been committed to disc. These splendid performances

by cellists Sebastian Hess and David Stromberg with the Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra will be a welcome encounter for any listener in quest of Romantic music discoveries.

1CD OEH 1704 $12.99

Ferdinand Rebay: Complete Sonatas for Violin/Viola and Guitar

Ferdinand Rebay (1880–1953) was born in Vienna, and those roots are not lost on his music. While I didn’t uncover any facts regarding a formal training on the instrument, most of his available recordings are of chamber music that involves the guitar, as is the case here in these three sonatas for violin or viola and

guitar peformed by Laurence Kayaleh and guitarist Michael Kolk. The combination of the two instruments stays fresh throughout the program and there is a distinct Viennese salon music feel to it. Whle it may be modest, the music is quite pleasant, idiomatically and masterfully performed.

1CD NXS 8573992 $12.99

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012): Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 / Wilson, BBC Scottish SO

It often happens that a composer’s success in one genre overshadows his or her other work. This can certainly be said of the orchestral concert music of Richard Rodney Bennett, whose extensive catalog of film music is all that many listeners have heard. This Chandos release is the fourth in a series devoted

to Bennett’s orchestral concert music. As you’d expect, it is colorful, tuneful and dramatic, the more serious compositions recalling Shostakovich, Bartók and Barber. The BBC Scottish Orchestra under John Wilson furnish virtuosic performances.

1SACD CHA 5244 $18.99

Ravel: Bolero, La valse, Rapsodie espagnole / Robert Trevino; Basque NO

Conductor Robert Trevino’s new album release on Ondine – after a successful debut with a complete Beethoven symphony cycle – features six orchestral pieces by Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), one of the most famous Basque composers, played by the Basque National Orchestra. In this historic release,

we can finally hear Ravel’s orchestral music being interpreted by Basque musicians in the form of the Basque National Orchestra. These performances on some of the most fantastic orchestral scores of the 20th century also shed light to the Basque influences in Ravel’s music.

1CD OND 1385 $14.99

Agnes Zimmerman: Sonatas (3) for Violin and Piano

Agnes Zimmermann was one of Europe’s more important pianists, as well as a composer. Her compositional output was modest, but at its core lie these three impressive sonatas for violin and piano written over the span of about a decade, between 1868 and 1879. The fact that she was

a contemporary of Brahms is not lost in this music, which exhibits grace and brawn by turn. Violinist Mathilde Milwidsky and pianist Sam Haywood evidently relish the interesting interplay of Zimmermann’s music.

1CD TOC 0541 $18.99

Clarinet Quintets by Weber, Baermann and Krommer / Eric Hoeprick, clarinetA founding member of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th century and instructor at the Paris Conservatoire, Eric Hoeprich has for over 25 years been among the leading exponents of the historical clarinet and its performance practice. On this Glossa release, Mr. Hoeprich and the London Haydn Quartet present two Classical era quintets for clarinet and strings by Weber and Krommer, and an Adagio from another quintet by Heinrich Baermann. While the Weber and Baermann pieces are available in multiple recorded version, the Krommer is a rarity. For listeners drawn to the program, this superb release will not disappoint.

1CD GLS 920610 $18.99

Editor’s LetterThe goal of this Editor’s Choice feature is to bring collectors’ attention to new classical recordings of uncommon yet exemplary repertoire, superbly performed and recorded. It is my hope that you will discover music on these pages that expand your horizons, and that might inspire you to share with other music lovers. Since I founded HBDirect in 1985, he most enjoyable aspect of my work has been the endless availability to music to which I can listen. I’m pleased to be able to share with you some of the best new recordings I’ve heard recently. – Paul Ballyk


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Jaap Van Zweden; Dallas SO [2 CDs]Conducted by Jaap Van Zweden, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents this live recording of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3.

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Rachmaninoff: The Bells – Live in MoscowThis is one of Rachmaninov’s finest large compositions, perhaps his greatest. Recorded live at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

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Maria Callas: The Complete Puccini Studio Recordings [15 CDs]

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Persichetti: Serenade No. 5, Symphony No. 5“First Edition’s reissue programme continues with their splendid Persichetti release…Standards remain admirably high in this welcome series.” – MusicWeb

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [DVD Video]

100 minutes of the most stunning visual and musical highlights of this production by La Fura dels Baus, including two new documentaries about Franc Aleu and Carlus Padrissa.

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Juxtapositions: 5 Films on the Greatest 20th-century Composers [5 DVDs]

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Lees: Symphony No. 4 – Memorial CandlesBenjamin Lee composed this symphony in 1983 as a memorial of the Allied victory over the Third Reich that brought the Holocaust to an end.

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Berlioz: Les Troyens [2 DVDs]“Coproduced with the Mariinsky Theatre and Polish National Opera, the spectacle was documented at the Palau de les Arts, Valencia, and it is musically a thrilling occasion....” – Opera News

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Britten: Les Illuminations / Karina Gauvin, Les Violons Du RoyFor this new recording of one of Britten’s most effective works, soprano Karina Gauvin employs the full range of her expressive palette and great virtuosity.

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Verdi: Sacred Verdi / Antonio Pappano; Maria Agresta

The repertoire consists of the Four Sacred Pieces, the 1880 Ave Maria, and the original version of Libera me from the Messa da Requiem, with soloist Maria Agresta.

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Ailyn Pérez: Poème d’un jourA delightful program of French and Spanish song explores the theme of love from the subtlety of Fauré to the fiery passion of Turina, Obradors and de Falla.

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Mozart Piano Concertos / Friedrich Gulda [DVD Video]

This first release of a concert featuring 56-year-old Friedrich Gulda and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra at the Münchner Klaviersommer 1986 is truly legendary.

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The Glenn Dicterow CollectionViolinist Glenn Dicterow is one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation. This collection offers three recent concerti recordings.

1CD NYP 20140201 $8.49 $16.99 Siegmeister: Piano Music, Vol. 2

Siegmeister immersed himself in the potential of American folk-song and jazz, helping to give rise to a distinctly “American” style in the mid-20th century.

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Verdi: Stiffelio [DVD or Blu-Ray video]When the wife of a preacher is an adulterer, problems are inevitable from the outset of Verdi’s Stiffelio. Even today the finale seems astonishingly bold.

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British Composers: Delius, Howells, Hadley [5 CDs]

This collection features works by Delius, and music by Herbert Howells, a composer firmly in the English tradition, and the lesser-known Patrick Hadley.

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Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 4 and 7 / Vladimir Jurowski [DVD Video]This all-Beethoven concert gathers together the lesser-known Fourth Symphony – composed while Beethoven was enjoying one of the most peaceful times of his life – with the celebrated Seventh.

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American Serenade – Works for Violin and Orchestra by Bernstein, Waxman and Gershwin

This is Rachel Kolly d’Alba’s second album with the National Orchestra of the Loire and John Axelrod.

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Gloria Coates: String Quartet Nos. 1, 5 and 6Based in part on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV, Falstaff is Verdi’s last stage work and his only comic opera.

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Natalie Dessay sings Michel LegrandAfter her triumphs in the world’s greatest opera houses, Natalie Dessay extends beyond opera with a tribute to the legendary Michel Legrand.

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Strauss: Arabella [2 DVDs]“The star-laden cast includes soprano Renèe Fleming, baritone Thomas Hampson, and Gabriela Beňačková. “The music of Richard Strauss is in the best of hands.” – ORF

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Marie-Josée Lord – Yo soy MaríaAccompanied by an ensemble of nine musicians, and Viva Voce Vocal Ensemble, Marie-Josée Lord sings some of the most beautiful songs in the Latin repertoire.

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Dvořák and America – Hiawatha Melodrama; American SuiteThe centerpiece of this program is the first ever recording of the Hiawatha Melodrama, a concert work for narrator and orchestra.

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Tavener: Lament for JerusalemSir John Tavener’s Lament for Jerusalem, described by the composer as a mystical love song, brings together Christian, Judaic, and Islamic texts.

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7We are confronted with a “perfect” version of the Ninth at more or less regular intervals, and marvel at an almost Faustian thirst for knowledge on the part of the staunchest Brucknerians.

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Strong: Symphony No. 2 “Sintram” / Moscow Symphony Orchestra

“With this disc the Moscow Symphony are fast proving themselves “one of the pre-eminent orchestras of our time....” – American Record Guide

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Furtwängler & Beethoven: Violin SonatasFurtwängler’s extensive First Violin Sonata in D minor was premiered in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig in 1937. The violinist was Hugo Kolberg, and Furtwängler himself was at the piano.

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Bennett: Abraham Lincoln – Sights and Sounds

Among Robert Russell Bennett’s best known works is the 1929 tribute to Abraham Lincoln, a score that burns with a pasionate American pride.

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro [DVD Video]Le nozze di Figaro is one of the greatest of all operatic masterpieces, and based on Beaumarchais’ comedy Le Mariage de Figaro.

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Strong: Ondine, From a Notebook of Sketches

“The Moscow players are on their best behavior, and conductor Adriano is adept at limning the constantly changing moods and colors of the music.” – American Record Guide

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Handel: Admeto [Blu-ray Video]George Frideric Handel’s ‘Admeto’ is considered one of the most successful operas produced in the first half of the 18th century.

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Beyond Chant – Mysteries of the Renaissance / Voices of Ascension

Set in the 1950s, this production features an outstanding cast of singers that drive a line between inventive genius and a sense of tradition, caricature and insight into the roles and characters.

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Philip Glass: The Perfect American [DVD or Blu-Ray video]The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass’s latest opera.

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Pann: Piano Concerto, Dance PartitaCarter Pann’s Piano Concerto distills the composer’s influences through a suite of independent movements.

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Helps: Shall We Dance, Piano QuartetThis live recording of ‘The Darkened Valley’ was Helps’ fourth and final encore on November 6, 2000, in Berlin’s Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie.

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Renée Fleming – Live in Concert [DVD Video]Renée Fleming, Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra unite for a program of song, opera and tone poem.

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Marie-Josée Lord – Opera AriasFor her first solo CD, the intense and flamboyant soprano Marie-Josée Lord has picked her favorites from her repertoire of opera arias.

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The Philip Smith Collection – Trumpet HighlightsFrom the New York Philharmonic’s in-house label come three distinct albums of orchestra trumpet fare that feature the orchestra’s longtime principal trumpet chair, Phillip Smith

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Tundra Songs – Kronos QuartetThe Kronos Quartet sought out Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq for this project with Canadian composer Derek Charke.

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Korndorf: Complete Music for CelloRussian composer Korndorf was a larger-than-life character and wrote music that was similarly expansive and urgent. His 3 works for solo cello illustrate his unwillingness to be governed by convention.

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The Pyongyang Concert: New York Philharmonic / Maazel [DVD Video]

Hundreds of millions watched this historic New York Philharmonic concert on television in February 2008 and for a few hours the cold war hostilities seemed to be forgotten, as music became diplomacy.

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Brian Eno: Music for Airports / In the Ocean (documentary) [DVD Video]Scheffer explores Eno’s work, and the relationship between American and European composers, of how they view and influence each other.

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Uniko – Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen, Samuli Hosminen [DVD Video]

Uniko is the collaboration between the Kronos Quartet, accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen and sampling guru Samuli Kosminen.

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Bellini: I Puritani [DVD Video]In this darkly dramatic production of I Puritani, Mariola Cantarero is compelling as the heroine on the verge of insanity in one of the greatest mad scenes in the history of opera.

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Walter Felsenstein Edition [12 DVDs]This unique DVD edition brings together 7 opera films in a rare documentation that offers an insight into the theatrical work of a man whose legendary productions fascinated audiences for decades.

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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis [DVD Video]Soli Deo Gloria’s DVD of Missa Solemnis shines a supreme light on this rarely performed choral masterpiece. Beethoven wrote that “music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents”.

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Stravinsky in Hollywood – A Film by Marco Capalbo [DVD Video]

This documentary uses a combination of existing archival footage, interviews with Stravinsky, and premieres several big studio film scenes of the 40s with the music Stravinsky wrote for them.

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Mozart: Idomeneo [DVD Video]With the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1974 Richard Lewis once again confirms his position as the world’s leading exponent of this opera, in the title role of Idomeneo.

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Verdi: Fly, Thought On Golden Wings / Thomas Hampson [DVD Video]

Fly, Thought On Golden Wings is the famous prisoners’ chorus from one of Verdis’s most famous opera Nabucco – it is also the name of this fascinating documentary about Verdi’s life.

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All Star Orchestra: Russian Treasures, Northern Lights [DVD Video]The All-Star Orchestra gives you a front row seat to the world’s greatest music, performed by top players chosen from over 30 great American orchestras, and conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

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Ballet for Children / The Royal Ballet [4 DVDs]This unique collection brings together four jewels of the Royal Ballet repertoire that will delight and captivate young viewers the world over.

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Bellini: Norma [2 DVDs]“The story starts as an opera in an opera, but gradually the boundaries between theatre and reality become more and more ambivalent... great class!” – Trouw

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My Favourite Opera – Barbara Hendricks [DVD Video]

In the new “My Favourite Opera” series viewers get an up-close and personal look at world famous soprano Barbara Hendricks.

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Spirits of Music – Bobby McFerrin; Nigel Kennedy [DVD Video]This DVD is a musical journey through the centuries and the continents, from sacred classics to spiritual world music.

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Verdi: Falstaff [DVD Video]Based in part on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV, Falstaff is Verdi’s last stage work and his only comic opera.

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Rossini: Demetrio e Polibio [DVD Video]“What a pleasure to listen to Demetrio e Polibio”, wrote major Italian daily La Stampa after the premiere of Rossini’s very first opera at the 2010 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.

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Turnage: Anna Nicole [DVD Video]This is a roller-coaster of a real contemporary life for a blockbuster of a contemporary opera by the acclaimed opera composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.

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Haydn: The Creation / John Nelson [DVD Video]“This DVD brings us a very serious performance that radiates constant joy… it is the most enjoyable Creation I have seen.” – Fanfare

1DVD-Video JXTP 3079378 $12.50 $24.99

Verdi: Ernani [DVD Video]Part of the 200th anniversary series “Tutto Verdi,” this admirable Ernani stars the likes of Marco Berti and Carlo Guelfi.

1DVD-Video CME 720808 $12.50 $24.99

Love, Passion & Deceit – Classics from the Glyndebourne Festival [6 DVDs]Enjoy three classic opera productions (Rossini, Mozart, J. Strauss II) from The Glyndebourne Festival – a quintessentially English summer event.

6DVD-Video BOA 1074D $14.99 $29.99

Georg Solti Centenary Concert [Blu-ray Video]

This Centenary celebration featured works from Mozart, R. Strauss, Verdi, and Mahler performed by the World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

1Blu-Ray Video AHM 108073 $19.99 $39.99

Bernstein: Larger Than Life Documentary [Blu-ray Video]This fascinating documentary profiles one of most influential classical musicians of the 20th century and America’s musical ambassador to the rest of the world: Leonard Bernstein.

1Blu-Ray Video CME 736004 $20.99 $41.99

Meyerbeer: Robert le diable [Blu-ray Video]Director Laurent Pelly breathes new life into Meyerbeer’s great spectacle and audaciously entertaining moral fable, in this colorful new staging for The Royal Opera.

1Blu-Ray Video BOA 7121D $21.49 $42.99

Verdi: Messa da Requiem [Blu-ray Video]C Major continues its Tutto Verdi edition with his Messa da Requiem. This film includes a 52-minute bonus documentary introducing us to Verdi’s beautiful homeland, the region of Parma.

1Blu-Ray Video CME 725504 $17.49 $34.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 – Wolf: Lieder [Blu-ray Video]

The Seventh, whose Adagio was shaped by news of Wagner’s death in Venice, is paired with songs of Hugo Wolf, who was also deeply affected by that news.


Bloody Daughter (Documentary by Stephanie Argerich) [Blu-ray Video]This documentary by Martha Argerich’s daughter Stephanie was filmed in several countries, showing important musical and private stages of Martha and Stephen Kovacevitch, Stephanie’s father.

1Blu-Ray Video EUA 3073904 $14.99 $29.99

Britten: Peter Grimes [Blu-ray Video]Melly Still’s production for Glyndebourne finds the “delicate balance between whimsy and mysticism” (Daily Telegraph ) at the heart of the opera, which Vladimir Jurowski conducts.


Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos [Blu-ray Video]Guth and Schmidt work with the binary opposites that are posited on every level of the work and that seem to be so clear-cut: the reality of the prologue and the artificiality of the opera.

1Blu-Ray Video AHM 108045 $9.99 $39.99

Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato [Blu-ray Video]

“Set in the 1950s, this production features an outstanding cast of singers. “A truly flawless implementation…the performance can be called a complete success.” – L’Opera

1Blu-Ray Video AHM 108066 $19.99 $39.99

Verdi: Il Trovatore [Blu-ray Video]This production marked the debut of Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov at La Monnaie and the first Verdi interpretation by Marc Minkowski.

1Blu-Ray Video BAC 408 $19.99 $39.99

El Sistema – Music to Change Life [Blu-ray Video]El Sistema shows how Venezuelan visionary Jose Antonio Abreu has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children over the past three decades.This stirring film finds hope and joy in unlikely places.

1Blu-Ray Video EUA 2056954 $12.99 $25.99

Verdi: Attila [Blu-ray Video]C Major presents for the first time on Blu-ray the introduction to the opera Attila. “This is how Verdi should be played.” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

1Blu-Ray Video CME 721704 $17.49 $34.99

Britten: Gloriana [Blu-ray Video]Recorded as part of the Royal Opera’s Britten centenary celebrations. “Susan Bullock is an awe-inspiring Gloriana... Toby Spence, as Essex, has regained all his pristine vocal lustre.” – The Independent


Pfitzner: Palestrina [Blu-ray Video]Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina is his most important work and a challenging opera to stage. The Bavarian State Opera and conductor Simone Young shine.

1Blu-Ray Video EUA 2072524 $8.49 $16.99

Wagner: Siegfried – Der Ring des Nibelungen [Blu-ray Video]Siegfried’ is the Second “day” – and third part – of Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring’, the musical saga that its author spent more than a quarter of a century composing.

1Blu-Ray Video AHM 101358 $19.99 $39.99

Janáček: Jenůfa [Blu-ray Video]The vulnerable young woman at the heart of Janáček’s breakthrough opera is a signature role for the English soprano Amanda Roocroft.


Verdi: Alzira [Blu-ray Video]The Tutto Verdi project introduces audiences to all of Verdi’s works, including the lesser known gems like Alzira, here presented for the first time on Blu-ray.

1Blu-Ray Video CME 721504 $17.49 $34.99

Dinera Alieva in Moscow [Blu-ray Video]This live concert video showcases not only her rising superstar soprano Dinara Alieva’s voluptuous voice, but also her interpretive power and stylistic versatility.

1Blu-Ray Video DEL 7008 $9.99 $19.99

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar’s Bride [Blu-ray Video]Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride takes place in the suburbs of Moscow during the reign of Tsar Ivan IV, “the Terrible”, during the latter half of the 16th century.

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Wagner: Das Rheingold [Blu-ray Video]This new “Ring” production on Blu-Ray becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre, with Michael Schulz’ fine and highly intelligent staging.

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Recommended Early Music Releases

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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III / Owen Rees; ContrapunctusThe richest single source of Tudor polyphony, preserving almost 170 works many of which survive nowhere else, is a set of manuscript partbooks copied between about 1575 and 1581 by John Baldwin, a lay clerk at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. This album is the third and final installment in a series of recordings by Contrapunctus exploring contrasting aspects of this remarkable treasure house of sacred music covering much of the 16th century.

1CD SIG 633 $17.99

V1: Gregorian Chant Melodies / Monks of SolesmesThis album is Volume 1 in a two-release set that contains the best of the Monks of Solesmes – including the Te Deum, Stabat Mater, and Ave Maria, chants for the Liturgical Year from Advent to Pentecost, hymns from the service of Compline, as well as the Mass of the Angels. Sung with grace and style, the chants on this release are ideal for those who are familiar with the chant liturgy as a collection of familiar melodies.

1CD PRCP 844 $18.99

V2: Gregorian Chant Melodies / Monks of SolesmesThis album is the second a two-volume set that contains the best of the Monks of Solesmes. “The program offers alternate settings… of the sprinkling of water, the Ordinary of the Mass, Benediction hymns, and the most familiar pieces marking the liturgical year… exactly what is needed for those who long to hear the familiar chants again.” (Fanfare ) “Setting the standard for Gregorian performance.” (American Record Guide )

1CD PRCP 845 $18.99

Verdelot: Madrigals for Four Voices / Profeti della Quinta

The Ensemble Profeti della Quinta presents a selection of four-part madrigals from a Philippe Verdelot anthology published posthumously. A special feature of their performance is that each singer reads from the originally notated single voice. This spontaneity can be felt throughout the recording, and takes the listener to the beginnings of the Italian madrigal in a very intense way.

1CD PAN 10422 $18.99

Frescobaldi: Unpublished Music from the “Codici Ghigi” / Ivana Valotti

Tactus begins the world premiere of the Frescobaldi unpublished manuscripts, whose attribution has finally come to an end after years of work by Constance Frei and Etienne Darbellay, the most accredited musicologist in the studies concerning the great composer from Ferrara, and curator of the most important printed edition ever made of his keyboard works. Ivana Valotti performs a variegated anthology of toccatas, canzonas, and ricercars.

1CD TCT 580609 $16.99

Music of the Renaissance Set / Gloriae Dei Cantores [2 CDs]

This Renaissance Collection features sacred music from one of the most inspired periods in the arts. Each of the European schools of composition (Italian, Flemish, German, Spanish, and English) is represented by 20 composers, offering a fascinating cross-section of styles and influences. These Masters of the Renaissance include Palestrina who wrote music of unsurpassed grace and beauty.

2CD GLDC 8296 $29.99

Gesualdo: Madrigali Books 3 and 4 / Les Arts Florissants [2 CDs]

Following the acclaim which met their 2-CD set devoted to the first two books of Gesualdo’s madrigals, Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants now focus on the composer’s Ferrara period. Books III and IV mark a turning point in Gesualdo’s output. These madrigals, whose reliance on chromaticism and dissonance was so far ahead of it’s time that it’s like would not be heard again until centuries later.

2CD HAR 8905309 $22.99

Josquin: Motets & Mass Movements / The Brabant Ensemble; Stephen Rice

Biographical and musicological certainties may be in short supply in the life and work of Josquin, but there’s no gainsaying the magnificence of the music. This program of shorter works, from The Brabant Ensemble and Stephen Rice, most in unusual guise, celebrates his 500th anniversary.

1CD HYP 68321 $19.99

In Chains of Gold – The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Vol. 2 / Magdelena Consort; et al.

Leading performers of 17th-century music the Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts combine forces under the artistic direction of William Hunt for their second release exploring The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem – Psalms and Royal Anthems, particularly those of William Byrd. More than any composer before him, William Byrd catered prolifically to a wide variety of musicians.

1CD SIG 609 $17.99

Fading / Owain Park; The Gesualdo Six“Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one. The Gesualdo Six ‘Fading’ is startingly, urgently excellent… The Gesauldo Six are the real deal. Far from fading, they’re just coming into focus.” – Gramophone

1CD HYP 68285 $19.99

Voices of Byzantium / Cappella Romana, Alexander LingasCappella Romana performs exquisite Byzantine musical treasures – from the cathedrals and monasteries of the Eastern Roman Empire – preserved from destruction in the Egyptian desert at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai. Features music for the medieval celebration of Vespers in honor of St. Catherine, and Byzantium’s only liturgical drama, the Service of the Three Youths in the Fiery Furnace.

1CD CPLR 407 $18.99

Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones / El León De Oro; Peter Phillips

Francisco Guerrero is still insufficiently well known by comparison to his great contemporary and compatriot Victoria. El León de Oro here affirms his rightful place in the history of the Golden Age of Spanish polyphony.

1CD HYP 68347 $19.99

Gardens of Delight: Roses, Lilies & Other Flowers in Medieval Song / CiconiaReferences to lilies and roses and many other flowers abound in both secular and sacred texts that were set to music from across European medieval repertoire from the 12th to the early 15th century. The Telling has a growing reputation for creating intimate, staged concerts to bring medieval music off the page and reach wider audiences. Formed in 2009, The Telling draw from a pool of leading musicians who also perform for several other collectives.

1CD FHR 68 $19.99

Machaut: The Lion of Nobility / Orlando ConsortThe titular ‘lion of nobility’ was (probably) King John II of France, making the most expansive work on this album a lament for a historical event: the French defeat at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. Elsewhere, Machaut’s protagonist continues to scrutinize the joys and sorrows of courtly love in obsessive detail.

1CD HYP 68318 $19.99

The Organ Tradition of Apulia-Naples from Renaissance to Baroque / Margherita Sciddurlo, organThis anthology presented by the organist Margherita Sciddurlo is performed on the precious historical instrument: the Petrus De’Simone 1747 organ of the Church of San’Antonio in Mola di Bari, fully preserved and in excellent condition. The organ in question becomes the medium to reviving a cross-section of the Apulian organ tradition whose roots are deeply connected to the musical activity of the Kingdom of Naples since the 16th century.

1CD TCT 670004 $16.99

Tallis: Spem in Alium / Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars

“Not only is the choir superb and the interpretation an intelligent one; this is also the only recording in which the eight choirs genuinely seem to sing from different positions in the stereo spread, a techinical achievement that leads to some thrilling antiphonal exchanges.” – Gramophone

1CD GIM 006 $25.99

The Music of Leonardo’s Age / Nadia Caristi, soprano; Massimo Marchese, luteThis album features a beautiful program of works from the Renaissance for Soprano, accompanied here by lute, which was probably the most favored instrument for this during the Renaissance. Nadia Caristi graduated with degrees in classical piano and singing before going on to explore and ultimately dedicate herself to the historically informed performance practice of the Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoires.

1CD CEN 3807 $15.99

Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia / Cappella Romana (Blu-ray Audio+CD) [2 CDs]

Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is the first vocal album in the world to be recorded entirely in live virtual acoustics. It brings together art history, music history, performance, and technology to re-create medieval sacred sound in the cathedral of Hagia Sophia as an aural virtual reality. Enjoy more than 75 minutes of medieval Byzantine chant for the Feast of the Holy Cross in Constantinople.

2CD CPLR 420 $29.99

Le Secret de Monsieur Marin Marias / Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba, Luca Pianca, archluteThis album, entirely devoted to the music of Marais, alternates recits for solo viola with orchestral pieces, all of them reinterpreted in the light of the new discovery of Monsieur Marais’s ‘codes.’

1CD AHP 453 $18.99Roland de Lassus: Inferno / Daniel Reuss; Cappella Amsterdam“These are strikingly heartfelt, richly textured pieces, the great late-Renaissance composer weighting pertinent words with striking ingenuity.” – The Sunday Times

1CD HAR 902650 $25.99

Spanish Madrigals: Juan Navarro, Sebastian Raval / José Duce Chenoll; AmystisThe ensemble’s first two issues, devoted to Cabanilles and Cornes, showed Chenoli’s deep interest in the neglected music of the homeland. These performances display the same devotion and skill.

1CD BLC 95905 $10.49

The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare / The Baltimore ConsortThe Baltimore Consort has explored early English, Scottish, and French popular music. Here they perform music of Shakespeare, who authored the lyrics to some of these songs.

1CD SUIN 92234 $13.99

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New Baroque Discoveries

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Vivaldi’s Seasons / Bolette Roed, recorder; Arte dei Suonatori [2 CD]Recorder player Bolette Roed and Arte dei Suonatori present Vivaldi’s famous violin concertos, “The Four Seasons”, combined with other concertos that share a kinship with them, resulting in Vivaldi’s Seasons; a programme consisting of sixteen concertos, four for each season, including favorites such as Il rosignuolo and l’Amoroso.

2CD PTE 5186875 $24.99

Avison, Scarlatti: Concerti Grossi / Tiento Nuovo, Ignacio Prego, harpsichordHarpsichordist Ignacio Prego directs a new selection of the concerti grossi by Charles Avison drawing inspiration from keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. The Madrid-born Prego is alive to the variety of musical ideas embedded in these concertos – four of the concerti grossi “after Scarlatti” that Avison had published in 1744: each concerto is a sequence of movements, the melodious and playful contrasting with the restful and contemplative.

1CD GLS 923526 $18.99

Bach: Cello Suites / Asier Polo, cello [2 CDs]The six Suites are today the musical bible of cellists, the work with which they touch the sky, the limit which marks their arrival to absolute maturity. And this is how Asier Polo also approaches it. His interpretation goes to the essential. It is modern and made from the knowledge of historicist criteria. It puts music and its author before the performer.

2CD IBSC 182020 $16.99

Lalande: Les Fontaines de Versailles – Le Concert d’Esculape

Michel-Richard de Lalande is regarded as one of the great composers of the French Baroque, and so it is not surprising that the Boston Early Music Ensemble has now turned to him. Along with his many sacred works, de Lalande also wrote for the various court occasions that required secular music. Les Fontaines de Versailles, the work occupying a central position on this release, above all contributed to de Lalande’s increasing popularity.

1CD CPO 555097 $16.99

J.S. Bach: Partitas BWV 825–830 / Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord [2 CDs]

The Partitas are the first work for harpsichord published by Johann Sebastian Bach. Between 1726 and 1730, the partitas were published separately, one per year, before being brought together in a single collection in 1731. Lorenzo Ghielmi, one of the most famous interpreters of Bach’s works, presents us with a recording in which elegance and measure allow the beauty and formal rigour of these pages to coexist.

2CD PSSA 1105 $29.99

Campana (1819–1982): Arie a una, due, e tre voci / Francesco Tomasi, Ricercare Antico

The collection of Francesca Campana arias recorded here was published in 1629. It enjoys the notable status of the very first published collection of music solely dedicated to a female composer. Francesca dedicated it to the Mantovan nobleman Luigi Gonzaga, and it was followed the following year by a book of madrigals.

1CD BLC 96008 $10.49

Bach: Nostalghia / Francesco Piemontesi, pianoOn Bach Nostalghia, his second Pentatone album, pianist Francesco Piemontesi presents original works of Bach, alongside Bach transcriptions and works inspired by Bach from Ferruccio Busoni, Wilhelm Kempff and Maximilian Schnaus. Whereas many modern-day musicians aim to revive the instruments used in Bach’s own time, Piemontesi explores the tradition of Bach transcriptions for piano.

1CD PTE 5186846 $15.99

Francesco Venturini: Concerti di camera; Overtures Nos. 5 and 6 / La Festa Musicale

The Concerti of the violinist-composer Francesco Venturini are a real discovery – melodious, virtuosic, elegant and dance-like, combining Italian and French stylistic elements to form a “mixed taste”, as Telemann described this melange. Inspired by the pulsating cultural and intellectual life at the Hanoverian court, Venturini wrote ambitious orches tral music full of joie de vivre, for both wind and string instruments.

1CD ADT 97775 $18.99

Glenn Gould: The Bach Box / Glenn Gould, piano [30 CDs]

This new release from Sony presents Glenn Gould’s complete Bach recordings for Columbia Masterworks in a neat and handy 30 album set, pulled from the 2015 remastered complete collection. To this day renowned Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932–1982) continues to fascinate and entice fans and artists alike. Gould was very forward thinking and embraced technology in a way that was unique among performing artists.

30CD SNYC 19439753902 $89.99

Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Gaechinger Cantorey; Hans-Christoph Rademann [2 CDs]In November 2020, Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Gaechinger Cantorey ensemble and chorus set out to lend a new and fresh perspective to Bach’s timeless masterpiece of raging choirs, intimate chorales, and emotionally charged arias, which, with its drama and pictorial quality, allows the listener to experience the well-known Passion story again and again as something completely new and unheard-of.

2CD ACTS 30535 $29.99

Locatelli: Il labirinto armonico / Ilya Gringolts; Finnish Baroque Orchestra

Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s L’Arte del violino for solo violin, strings, and basso continuo took both violin technique and the solo concerto as a genre into a whole new realm. The twelve concertos included in the collection also played a part in forming the image of the violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom with Paganini towards the end of the century.

1SACD BIS 2445 $19.99Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV’s Chamber / Rignol, Cottet, Leconte [CD+DVD]Night is falling. In this twilight of the reign of Louis XIV and at the end of his Grand Coucher, the king is at last free from protocol. He then orders the musicians of the King’s Chamber to come to him; they are the most excellent in the kingdom. These “Petits Concerts” which were held in the evening before His Majesty enabled the king to hear his preferred repertoire from all that he had loved and even danced to.

1CD CHUV 029 $18.99Bach Transcriptions / Various Artists [20 CDs]

This fascinating set provides a refreshing window onto a much studied, much idolized, and oft performed master of composition, allowing many of his familiar works to appear in a new light, recognizable and yet transformed. Many of the transcriptions included here represent the work of contemporary,

world-class performers bringing Bach’s masterpieces into the repertoire of their own instruments or ensembles.

20CD BLC 95943 $56.99

Johann Joseph Fux / Gesù Cristo negato da Pietro / Ars Antiqua Austria [2 CD]The Viennese Court Kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741) is regarded in music history as the forefather of modern counterpoint, and his instructional work “Gradus ad parnassum” continues to influence education in the present day. After 300 years the oratorio Gesù Cristo negato da Pietro was performed for the first time in January 2020, and is now available here.

2CD ACT 24374 $21.99

Greco: Music for Bass Violin / Mvsica Perdvta; Renato Criscuolo, bass violin

The early-music cellist Renato Criscuolo and his Mvsica Perdvta ensemble have specialized in reviving vocal and chamber music by Italy-based composers from the 17th and 18th centuries.Their latest album revives the name and the music of Rocco Greco, a cellist-composer who can be considered the founder

of the distinguished Neapolitan cello tradition that later produced more renowned names such as Lanzetti and Caporale.

1CD BLC 96100 $10.49

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier / Aaron Pilsan, piano [2 CDs]Aaron Pilsan is only 25 years old, but he already has a busy career to his credit, with a solo album devoted to Beethoven and Schubert – very well received by the critics – and another of duo repertory with the cellist Kian Soltani. A student of Lars Vogt, he has also received guidance from András Schiff – Bach has always been at the center of their work together.

2CD AHP 669 $24.99Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Ensemble Resonanz

Two of Bach’s finest cantatas, both for solo alto, composed in Weimar (1714) and Leipzig (1726) respectively, are here coupled with Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater of 1736, the 18th century’s favorite sacred work. The gap between austere Lutheran piety and searing Mediterranean emotionalism might

seem unbridgeable, yet Bach so admired the composition of his Neapolitan colleague that he made his own ‘parody’ of it to a German text.

1CD HAR 902637 $19.99Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri / Ensemble Correspondances [2 CDs]Since it’s formation in 2008, the Ensemble Correspondances has devoted itself chiefly to French sacred music of the 17th century. Brought together by Sébastien Daucé during their studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) de Lyon, the musicians of Correspondances pursue this work (focusing notably on Marc-Antoine Charpentier) with infectious enthusiasm today.

2CD HAR 902350 $22.99

Marais: Troisième Livre De Pièces / François Joubert-Caillet, viola de gamba [4 CDs]Ten years after his Third Book was published, Marin Marais had to reaffirm his position as the reigning master of the genre, a mission accomplished to perfection with this new opus.

4CD RCR 424 $36.99

Molter: Forgotten Treasures Vol. 12 – Ouvertüre, Sinfonia and ConcertiMichael Alexander Willens and his Kölner Akademie present some of the concertos and orchestral works of Johann Melchior Molter in first recordings with remarkable inventiveness.

1SACD ARSP 38252 $19.99

Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 4 / Benjamin Alard, harpsichord and organ [3 CDs]Volume 4 of Benjamin Alard’s complete recording of Bach’s keyboard works continues to explore the Weimar period. Benjamin Alard performs on three instruments, including a magnificent 1702 harpsichord.

3CD HAR 9024620 $28.99

Storace: Complete Harpichord and Organ / Enrico Viccardi, organ, harpsichord and spinet [2 CD]To convey the varied colors and textures of Bernardo Storace’s music for this new recording, Enrico Viccardi has chosen to play four different historically significant instruments.

2CD BLC 95455 $12.99

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EraThe Classical Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 / Chiaroscuro Quartet

On a previous album, the Chiaroscuro Quartet has recorded the first half of Joseph Haydn’s Op. 76, including No. 3, the celebrated ‘Emperor’ quartet. This new release, like its predecessor, spans a wealth of moods and atmospheres: from the magical sunrise of the opening of 76/4 to the manic minuet and boisterous finale of 76/6, a movement without a tune worth the name but utterly engrossing even so.

1SACD BIS 2358 $19.99

Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 / Czech Chamber Philharmonic OrchestraCzech-born Paul Wranitzky, a contemporary of Mozart, was the most important symphonist in Vienna at the turn of the 18th century. To mark the ascension to the throne of Franz II in 1792, Wranitzky wrote the grand Symphony in C major, a work of regal quality and festive exuberance. Wranitzky’s mature symphonic style is on display in the Symphony in B flat major, with its expanded orchestral forces, contrasting textures and broad musical invention.

1CD NXS 8574227 $12.99

Reicha: Rediscovered Vol. 3 / Ivan Ilić, pianoFor this his third volume of works by Antoine Reicha, the pianist Ivan Ilić turns to one of the composer’s most extraordinary works, L’Art de varier, Op. 57. The set is remarkable for its scale and invention. Ivan Ilić describes the work as the missing link between Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations and Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations, which was certainly influenced by Reicha’s work. The recording was made on a Steinway Model D grand piano.

1CD CHA 20194 $18.99

François-Joseph Gossec: Requiem, La Nativité / Various Artists

François-Joseph Gossec was doubtless one of the most prominent French composers of the 18th century and wrote works representing almost all the musical forms and genres. His oratorios and truly amazing Messe des Morts also made him a trailblazing figure. La Nativite to a text by Gossec’s contemporary Michel Paul Guy de Chabonon is his most famous oratorio, which premiered on Christmas Eve 1774. This recording of his symphonic music was also awarded an Opus Klassik 2020.

1CD CPO 777869 $16.99

Beethoven’s World – Salieri, Hummel, Voříšek / Reinhard Goebel; WDR Sinfonieorchester

The third album of this celebrated “Beethoven’s World” series continues the musical foray into the Vienna of the early 19th century with extraordinary rarities from Beethoven’s contemporaries. Recorded with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the recording proves once again that there was far more to hear for Vienna music lovers than piano concertos by Mozart or symphonies by Beethoven.

1CD SNYC 19075929602 $14.99Mozart Contemporaries: 18th Century Music for Bassoon / Carmen Mainer Martin, bassoon; Violeta Mur, cello

The starting-point for this unique recital is a true Mozart rarity, the Sonata for bassoon and cello K292 which Mozart wrote in 1775, pairing the bass members of string and wind families not to comic effect but rather demonstrating their expressive versatility and contrasting tone-colors. Rarer still on album is the creative output of Dürnitz himself, represented here by four sonatas for bassoon and keyboard from a collection of six.

1CD BLC 96020 $10.49

Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Isabelle Faust, violinAfter a successful trilogy devoted to the concertos and trios of Schumann, Freiburger Barockorchester and Pablo Heras-Casado could not ignore one of Beethoven’s most unusual works: the Triple Concerto. Alongside Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, they bring this score to life as only true chamber musicians can, revealing it’s subtlest colors and balances.

1CD HAR 902419 $19.99

Michael Haydn Collection / Various Artists [28 CDs]

An inspiration to Mozart and a teacher to composers such as Diabelli and Weber, Johann Michael Haydn was a respected and influential figure during his lifetime. The earliest symphonies included here, No. 1 in C and No. 1B in F, date from 1758 and display the youthful energy of a composer finding his feet.

28CD BLC 95885 $69.99

Benda: Medea / Katharina Thalbach, narrator; Marcus Bosch; Cappella Aquileia

In 1778 Mozart attested “the most wonderful effect” to the melodrama Medea (1775) of his contemporary Georg Anton Benda (1722–1795). Indeed, the combination of spoken texts with dramatic music unfolds a high emotional intensity here. Marcus Bosch and the cappella aquileia accompany this new discovery of classical music theater with their usual precise and transparent sound.

1CD CVEL 92014 $18.99

Hans Rosbaud conducts Beethoven / Südwestfunk-Orchester Baden-Baden [7 CDs]This is the new installment of the series dedicated to the SWR recordings of the conductor Hans Rosbaud. It contains all Beethoven’s Symphonies and Overtures Rosbaud has recorded for the SWR, among them two different versions of the 8th Symphony. Additionally, famous interpreters Ginette Neveu and Géza Anda are to be heard on this album with the Violin Concert, respectively with the Piano Concert No. 5.

7CD SWRM 19089 $38.99

Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, pianoFollowing his acclaimed recording of Beethoven’s concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet returns to his exploration of Haydn’s sonatas, described by Gramophone as ‘a major modern recording landmark in the Haydn discography’. As in previous installments, Bavouzet has programmed sonatas from Haydn’s early, middle, and late periods, giving added interest to the recital.

1CD CHA 20131 $18.99

Mozart – Violin Concertos Vol. 1 / Aisslinn Nosky, violin; Max Mandel, viola

Mozart’s Violin Concertos need little introduction – from No. 3 in G major featuring the 19-year-old Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable best, to the Sinfonia Concertante – the string concerto masterpiece – with its masterly mixture of noble strength and tender lyricism. The Handel and Haydn Society with their inspirational Concertmaster, Aisslinn Nosky, bring Mozart’s musical magic to life.

1CD COO 16183 $18.99

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / René Jacobs; Frieburger BarockorchesterWritten between 1818 and 1823, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis was the result of intensive theological and musical research in the library of it’s dedicatee, Archduke Rudolph of Austria. It is, in Beethoven’s own view, his most ambitious composition. On this recording, René Jacobs shows us that it is also his loftiest. This is the work of a compose creating that which expresses in musical terms the universality of divine transcendence.

1CD HAR 902427 $19.99

Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 / Peter Donohoe, piano

Volume 4 of Peter Donohoe’s acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas on SOMM Recordings focuses on the composer’s adoption of the newly emerging pianoforte and his bold exploitation of its more sophisticated voicing. Sonatas Nos.1 in C major (K279) and 5 in G major (K283) were composed as a set of

six “difficult” sonatas by the 18-year-old prodigy in 1774. “This is a recording full of joy...” – Classical Music Daily

1CD SOMM 0629 $18.99

Rossini: 7 Complete Operas / Various [14 DVDs]The first misconception that the Rossini Renaissance has gradually corrected is that Rossini was only able to excel in the comic genre. Rossini’s serious operas, as a matter of fact, are not only overall of high artistic quality but also quite original. This collector’s boxset offers an interesting selection of Rossini’s main opera seria (and semiseria, with reference to La gazza ladra ) played by great interpreters, conductors and directors.

14DVD-Video DYN 37888 $74.99

Haydn: Complete Piano Concertos / Mélodie Zhao, Camerata Schweiz [2 CDs]

Pianist Melodie Zhao teams up with the Camerata Schweiz and Howard Griffiths on this complete recording of Joseph Haydn’s concertos for keyboard instruments – for harpsichord, for pianoforte, and surprisingly also for organ. The recording is based on the instrumental assignments and score text in the musicological complete edition of Haydn’s works.

2CD CPO 555400 $33.99Anton Eberl: Complete Piano Sonatas / Luca Quintavalle, fortepiano [2 CDs]Modern performers such as Luca Quintavalle have revived Mozart-contemporary Anton Eberl for a new generation of listeners. These seven piano sonatas by themselves should restore his name to a senior rank of Viennese composers. Eberl made uncommonly ambitious use of minor-key tonalities for his time; there are two G minor sonatas of which the second, Op. 39, probably counts as his masterpiece, for its breadth of expression.

2CD BLC 95929 $12.99Beethoven: In Celebration of the 250th Anniversary / Sophia Agranovich, piano

This is a program featuring some of Beethoven’s greatest piano works, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth. A native of Ukraine, Sophia Agranovich is an internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and educator. Agranovich is “a bold, daring pianist in the tradition of the Golden Age Romantics… A tigress of the keyboard”. – Fanfare.

1CD CEN 3828 $15.99

Domenico Cimarosa: 21 Sonatas for Organ / Andrea Chezzi, organThis new album of Domenico Cimarosa’s sonatas in versions for organ celebrates the variety and adaptability of Cimarosa’s idiom and demonstrates why he was so lionized in his own time.

1CD BLC 95781 $10.49

The Harp in the Vienna of Maria Theresa / Margret Köll, harp; Marcello Gatti, transverse fluteMargret Köll is one of the most important interpreters of the historical harp. In her new album she dedicates herself to the “single pedal harp”, which was developed at the beginning of the 18th century.

1CD ACT 24369 $18.99Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Ann-Helen Moen, soprano; Marianne Beate Kielland, altoBach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki now give us their rendering of Beethoven’s last and greatest symphony, joined by a fine quartet of vocal soloists.

1SACD BIS 2451 $19.99

C.P.E. Bach: Complete Piano Trios Nos. 1–6 / Linos Piano Trio [2 CDs]Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach publish these Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte accompanied by Violin and Violoncello (Wq. 89), in 1776.

2CD CAVI 8553480 $19.99

CLASSICAL ERA ALBUMS IN BRIEF

Classical Era Recommendations


NEW RELEASES – ROMANTICEraThe Romantic Fauré: Works for Violin & Piano / Jane Gordon, violin; Jan Rautio, piano

Bridging the end of Romanticism and the beginnings of Modernism, Gabriel Fauré is considered to be one of the most important French composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection of Fauré’s works for violin and piano are performed on period instruments. Duo Jane Gordon (violin) and Jan Rautio (piano) here celebrate their significant milestone of two decades of musical partnership.

1CD REOA 10275 $16.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 / Ádám Fischer; Düsseldorf SymphonicThe much acclaimed series of the complete Mahler Symphonies with the Düsseldorf Symphonic under the baton of Ádám Fischer gets more complete with the release of the Symphony No. 2. Fischer writes: “Mahler’s Second Symphony has special significance for me… The first reason is biographical. As far as I am concerned, Mahler is just as much a part of Vienna Classicism as Haydn.”

1CD CAVI 8553485 $17.99

Rebay: Complete Music for Clarinet, Flute & Guitar / Esteso TrioViennese composer Ferdinand Rebay (1880–1953) remained largely unaffected by the turbulent musical currents swirling around him in the Austrian capital during the early 20th century. Instead, he composed highly appealing music, Romantic in harmony and Classical in form, with a particular focus on the guitar. The Italian Esteso Trio here presents three variation sets scored for clarinet, flute and guitar.

1CD BLC 96063 $10.49

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Igor Levit, Xiaohan Wang

In 2005 Igor Levit and Xiaohan Wang performed, together with the Kölner Kammerorchester under Helmut Müller-Brühl, as outstanding talents of the semi-final of the “International Beethoven Competition for Piano Bonn”. The young pianists, today successful all over the world, performed on that occasion Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2. On this recording, Igor Levit performs the First Concerto, and Xiaohan Wang the Second.

1CD NXS 8551447 $12.99

Visions of Childhood – Music of Mahler, Wagner, Humperdinck & Schubert / English SO

Richard Wagner wrote his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son, Siegfried. Nowhere else in music is there so tender an evocation of those fragile and precious first weeks of life. Gustav Mahler’s 100-minute Third symphony and his Fourth grew out of the musical material in the short, beautiful song which forms the final movement of the Fourth Symphony, which concludes these Visions of Childhood.

1CD NIM 6408 $18.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, Paavo Järvi continues his complete cycle of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, following a first volume devoted to Symphony No. 5 and the symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini. This second volume features Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4. The Fourth, composed in 1878 and nicknamed the ‘Fate’ Symphony because of its somber coloring.

1CD AHP 735 $18.99

Catoire: Piano Concerto, Op. 21, Piano Quintet, Op. 28, Piano Quartet, Op. 31 / Oliver Triendl, piano

Although the originality of his musical language paved the way for Russian modernism, Georgy Catoire’s work still followed the artistic ideals of Russia and not the new culture of the Soviet Republic. His work is highly expressive and of enormous polyphonic density, greatest expressiveness, fine colors, rhythmic and harmonious scope. “Now I have come across someone who really has a great creative talent.” (Peter Tchaikovsky )

1CD CAP 5403 $16.99

Wolf-Ferrari: 3 Violin Sonatas / Davide Alogna, violin; Constantino Catena, piano

Previously known principally for his operatic and dramatic works such as I gioielli della Madonna, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari built up a body of instrumental music that was played across Europe during his lifetime. The First Violin Sonata was written while the 19-year-old Wolf-Ferrari was still studying with Joseph Rheinberger in Munich. However, its long-breathed melodies and grasp of large-scale form bely its composer’s relative inexperience.

1CD BLC 96093 $10.49

Rott: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 / Christopher Ward, Gürzenich Orchester Köln

The 1989 premiere of the Symphony No. 1 in E major by Hans Rott, written almost 100 years earlier, introduced the international music world to a composer who had been unknown or known only by name even to most pundits. Besides Wagner, Bruckner was the most important model for Rott’s first symphonic work. The symphony is his first and final finished major work.

1CD CAP 5414 $16.99

Gernsheim Complete Violin Sonatas / Christoph Schickedanz, Ernst Breidenbach [2 CDs]Friedrich Gernsheim again and again returned to chamber music during the course of his life, from his beginnings in Leipzig and Paris to his later Berlin years. The violin sonatas in particular stand out in this group within his oeuvre because they truly document his compositional development. Works range from the 14-year-old’s Sonata in E minor, to the mature Op. 50, 64, and 85, with 13 to 14 years separating the composition of each of these works.

2CD CPO 555330 $33.99

Janáček: On An Overgrown Path / Lars Vogt, piano

Lars Vogt’s new solo piano release is dedicated to the piano works of Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), one of the most original voices among the 20th century composers. This album includes three of the composer’s most well-known and most extensive solo piano works. These works by Janáček are marked by deep melancholy and passion. They manifest the composer’s rich inner world through a musical language that remains to be timeless.

1CD OND 1382 $14.99

Bruch: Symphony Nos. 1–3 / Robert Trevino, Bamberger Symphoniker [2 CD]“Bruch’s three symphonies are a gift to a sympathetic interpreter, and Robert Trevino joins a select group of conductors who have succeeded in making these awkward but intensely lovable works sing... This is music of rolling vistas, sunlit hillsides and good wine, and the sound of the Bambergers suits it beautifully.” – Gramophone

2CD CPO 555252 $33.99

Sullivan: Ballet Music / RTÉ Concert OrchestraSoon after his return from studies in Leipzig, Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote his second work, L’Île Enchantée. This premiere recording restores passages Sullivan cut when presenting the work for concert performances. Thespis, a collaboration with W.S. Gilbert, is a flamboyant opera cum pantomime of which only fragments now remain – the work’s lost ballet has been rediscovered and restored by Roderick Spencer and Selwyn Tillett.

1CD NXS 8555180 $12.99

Brahms: Sonatas Op. 120 Nos. 1 & 2 / Antoine Tamestit, violaMagisterially rounding off one of the 19th century’s most remarkable bodies of chamber music, Brahms’s two Sonatas op.120 call for a virtuosity wholly dedicated to their extraordinary lyricism. The melodic line develops with an almost organic naturalness. Hence it is hardly surprising in this context to discover two lieder in which baritone and viola are treated as equals, and which are here interpreted by three exceptional musicians.

1CD HAR 902652 $19.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Jakub Hrůša, Bamberger Symphoniker

The Bamberg Symphony were involved at an early stage in investigating the effects of performing during the onset of the coronavirus, and helped to develop concepts for safe concert performances. Their renowned Mahler Competition took place in July 2020. These were the first symphonic performances after months, which led to one of the first symphonic album recordings in times of the pandemic – seated apart, but musically closer than ever.

1CD ACTS 30532 $19.99

Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin / Kerson Leong, violinKerson Leong recently participated in the award-winning Tribute to Ysaÿe. This is his first solo recital for Alpha. Here he tackles a monument of the violin repertory, the Sonatas for solo violin of Eugene Ysaÿe: ‘These sonatas are of course a big test...The music is highly emotional, pervasive and in some ways also very sombre, which makes it extremely powerful’, says Leong of these six sonatas.

1CD AHP 455 $18.99

Brahms: Piano Concerto After, Op. 25 / Silver-Garburg Piano Duo

Music by Johannes Brahms for four hands would be nothing out of the ordinary as a recital program given by the renowned Silver Garburg Piano Duo – but a concert featuring piano four hands with orchestra? The versatile Austrian composer and arranger Richard Dünser has arranged Brahms’s Piano Quartet Op. 25 and dedicated the resultant work to Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg. This is a very special piece of music with an exciting genesis.

1CD BER 0301263 $18.99

Scriabin (1872–1915): Mazurkas, Poèmes & Impromtus / Dmitri Alexeev, piano [3 CDs]This multi-album set of piano works by Scriabin is the fourth and final installment in Dmitri Alexeev’s monumental endeavor to record Scriabin’s entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, an eight-album collection that includes the earlier complete preludes, complete etudes and complete piano sonatas. This set gathers all the works that do not belong to the uniform cycles of the previous three releases.

3CD BLC 95931 $14.99

Music by Chopin and Liszt / Jin Ah Kwon, pianoThis is a great program of works for piano by Chopin and Liszt. A native of Korea, Jin Ah Kwon began playing the piano at the age of five.

1CD CEN 3849 $15.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ / Bavarian Radio SOIt was on the borderline between High and Late Romanticism, that Anton Bruckner once again conjured up the very essence of the Romantic attitude to life with his Fourth Symphony.

1CD BRK 900187 $16.99

Medtner: Complete Songs, Vol. 2 / Ekaterina Levental, mezzo; Frank Peters, piano“The melancholy, autumnal atmosphere evokes Tsarist Russia, of which the once Uzbek but long Dutch-resident Ekaterina Levental has perfectly captured the spirit. Her smooth singing is a joy to listen to.” – Opus Klassiek

1CD BLC 96061 $10.49

Works for Cello and Piano by Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn / Johannes Moser, cello; Alasdair Beatson, pianoGerman-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Irish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny.

1SACD PTE 5186781 $19.99

ROMANTIC ERA RELEASES IN BRIEF

Romantic Era Recommendations


NEW RELEASES – CHORAL

Music for ChorusThe Romantic Era Dušek: Complete Music for Fortepiano / Marius

Bartoccini, fortepiano & harpsichord [5 CDs]Brilliant Classics now presents the first-ever complete survey of František Xaver Dušek, who comes to life as not merely a Czech contemporary of Mozart but the father of the Czech piano school. Across 24 numbered sonatas, a divertimento, a set of variations and a handful of works for keyboard duet, his own output traverses the era, beginning with the Baroque conventions and youthful high spirits of his early sonatas.

5CD BLC 95863 $17.99

Helena Munktell: Violin Sonata, Dix Mélodies / Ringborg, Asplund, Winiarski, Johansson

This is the first ever album devoted to the chamber music of Helena Munktell, one of the earliest female composers in Sweden. The Dix Mélodies are finely crafted musical scenes displaying a wide expressive range and variety of moods. The third work on this album is a small-scale piano trio, probably an early work and possibly composed for performance at one of the musical salons at the Munktell family home in Stockholm.

1SACD BIS 2204 $19.99

Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Leopold Stokowski; NBC Symphony Orchestra

Leopold Anthony Stokowski was an English conductor of Polish descent. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed. He brings his own vision of Nordic grandeur to the first two of the Finnish master’s symphonies in these recordings.

1CD SIG 2071 $17.99

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 / Kevin John Edusei; Munich SO

The motto of this new release of Schubert’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 in E major might be “On to new horizons!” In general, this phrase has positive connotations, and it offers an apt description for the sparkling innovative force driving forward Symphony No. 3 in D major. Here, Schubert is still in a state of experimentation characterized by youthful energy, having overcome the teething troubles which plagued the previous Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2.

1CD SOLO 339 $18.99

Brahms: Trio, Op. 114, Sonatas, Op. 120 / Miguel Da Silva, viola; Xavier Phillips, cello

Brahms’s Trio Op.114, originally conceived for clarinet (like the two Sonatas Op.120 ), is presented here in its version with viola: ‘Like all Brahms’s works, this trio is a vocal, melodic piece. And the viola is perhaps the instrument of the string quartet that comes closest to the human voice’, says violist Miguel Da Silva.

1CD AHP 648 $18.99

Carl Maria von Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra / Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. Like other composer-pianists he wrote works to use as his personal calling cards, among them the two piano concertos recorded here. This disc brings the team of Ronald Brautigam and Kölner Akademie to the very crossroads of Classicism and Romanticism.

1SACD BIS 2384 $19.99

Fauré: Piano Quartets, Op. 15 & Op. 45 / Quartetto Werther

With this release, their debut commercial recording, the Quartetto Werther has produced finely calibrated, beautifully engineered versions of the two piano quartets which make an ideal introduction to the voice of Gabriel Fauré in the realm of chamber music. The romantic, passionate melodies of the Op. 15 celebrated Quartet in C minor are enclosed within relatively strict classical forms, with a songlike Adagio at its expressive heart.

1CD BLC 95961 $10.49

Raff: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 / Leipziger Streichquartett

In Weimar, Joachim Raff orchestrated some of Liszt’s early symphonic poems and gained his appreciation. He rarely performed publicly, though he was an excellent pianist. As founding director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt he nevertheless enjoyed great recognition among his contemporaries. To rekindle this in our time, the new recording of the Leipzig String Quartet is a highly welcome beginning.

1CD MDG 3072187 $18.99

Chopin: 4 Ballades, 4 Impromptus / Anna Vinnitskaya, pianist

The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built up an impressive discography: Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and of course the Russian composers with whom she has been familiar since her childhood and her studies with Evgeni Koroliov. She has now made her first Chopin recording, coupling the 4 Ballades, a cross between the miniature and the sonata, with the 4 Impromptus he composed at different periods of his life, between 1835 and 1842.

1CD AHP 728 $18.99

Romberg: Symphonies 1 & 3 / Orchestra of Gelderland & Overijssel, Griffiths

Andreas Romberg is a recognized composer situated on the interface between Classicism and Romanticism. Romberg was regarded as a celebrated violin virtuoso, concertmaster, and composer, and his symphonies were extremely popular when they were written. For quite some time the performance figures for his symphonies ranked second only to those for works by the Viennese Classicists. Here you can enjoy his Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3.

1CD CPO 777052 $16.99

Easter in Ireland / Newman Vocare EnsembleGIA Publications, Inc. is pleased to offer Easter in Ireland, their first recording by Steve Warner and the Newman Vocare Ensemble. This album offers a taste of the rich fabric of sounds found in Ireland. It is a merging of traditions: four-part choral singing; Uilleann pipes, low whistle, harp and harmonium; strings, organ and guitar. All of the selections are directed toward the joy of Easter.

1CD GIA 1072 $16.99

McDowall: Sacred Choral Music / Trinity College Choir Cambridge

McDowall’s keen sensitivity to text and her flair for writing vocal lines that are grateful to sing are just two of the virtues which justify the success of her choral music. Her original and distinctive voice is well served by Stephen Layton and his Trinity College forces.

1CD HYP 69251 $19.99

Handel: Messiah Refreshed / Royal PO [2 CDs]The Goossens Messiah, recorded for the first and only time by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Sir Thomas Beecham, has stood as a landmark of the classical catalogue for 60 years. Goossens’ richly orchestrated version is set to reach a new audience thanks to Maestro Griffith and DCINY. This new recording has captured the score’s vibrant tone colors in thrilling high-definition sound.

2CD SIG 610 $25.99

Campkin: True Light / Colin Spinks, organ; vOx Chamber Choir

Alexander Campkin is renowned as a leading young choral composer who has been commissioned by some of the most prestigious musical organizations in Britain. True Light reveals the energy and majestic sound world that he commands, as well as qualities of reflective intimacy. His Missa Brevis was inspired by seeing a beam of sunlight pierce a cloud of moving incense, ebbing and flowing.

1CD NXS 8574186 $12.99

Nordic Choral Music of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark / WDR Rundfunkchor KölnThe cultures of Scandinavia have always exerted a huge fascination over people. This fine collection of contemporary choral music spans the Nordic region, with novel sounds and provoking scores. These aspects have set new standards on the Scandinavian choral scene, leading to a continual professionalism making waves across all of Europe.

1CD HAN 20064 $17.99

Villa-Lobos – Choral Transcriptions / Valentina Peleggi; São Paulo Symphony Choir

Choral music holds a central position in Villa-Lobos’s catalogue of works, but among these famous pieces is a series of little-known transcriptions for a cappella choir taken from the standard classical repertoire. This album also includes the first ever recording of Villa-Lobos’s complete set of a cappella transcriptions from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier.

1CD NXS 8574286 $12.99

Distance / Choir of the Church of St. Andrew & St. PaulThe Choir of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal presents an album around the theme of isolation due in part to the Covid-19 pandemic. Distance explores different aspects of isolation and silence, but also determination and “breaking the silence”. Included are several choral pieces ranging from Bach motets with continuo to 21st century repertoire for a cappella choir by Barber, Elgar, and many others.

1CD ATMA 22840 $16.99

The Choral Collection – Works by Handel, Penderecki, Schumann, Whitacre / Various Artists [30 CDs]

Covering a vast array of repertoire, this essential collection presents the greatest choral masterpieces in critically acclaimed performances. From the sacred music of the Medieval era, to the refinement of the Renaissance and the Baroque; to the Romantic worlds of Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák; and to the exciting new sounds of Penderecki, The Choral Collection is a fantastic celebration of the art of choral singing.

30CD NXS 8503298 $69.99

Gregory Spears: The Tower and the Garden / Donald Nally: The CrossingThe artful dedication and sheer emotional power behind The Crossing’s performances draws a seemingly bottomless interest from collaborators and listeners alike.

1CD NVA 6303 $14.99

Patrick Hawes: The Fire of Love & Songs of Innocence / The Same Stream; James JordanThese works by Patrick Hawes bookend beautifully those deeply human aspects that teach us of both love and wonder through words that relay the moral and personal intensity of life’s journeys.

1CD GIA 1092 $16.99

Rosa Mystica – Musical Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary / Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir“The experienced choral director Paul Spicer is an ideal advocate of this varied repertoire, in both his interpretations and his booklet notes… an adventurous and rewarding anthology.” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD SOMM 0617 $18.99

A New England Requiem, Sacred Choral Music of Scott Perkins / Da Capo Players & ChoirA New England Requiem joins traditional Latin mass text and poems by Dickinson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Sigourney. “Perfectly Orchestrated… A remarkable and welcome musical surprise.” – Washington Times

1CD GTHC 49322 $18.99

CHORAL MUSIC RELEASES IN BRIEF

ROMANTIC ERA


NEW RELEASES – VOCALSProgramsNew Vocal

Dreams of a New Day – Songs by Black Composers / Will Liverman, baritoneFast-rising American operatic baritone Will Liverman makes his Cedille Records debut as a featured artist with Dreams of a New Day, an intimate, heartfelt recital he calls “a passion project.” Praised for his “unique combination of eloquence and unpretentiousness” (Opera News ), Liverman has assembled a program of songs that portray the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the African American experience through poignant texts and musical settings.

1CD CDL 200 $16.99

Chère Nuit: French Songs / Louise Alder, soprano; Joseph Middleton, pianoThe acclaimed British soprano Louise Alder returns for her second recital on Chandos, joined once again by star pianist Joseph Middleton. Enthusiastic praise was widespread for her release, Lines Written during a Sleepless Night: The Russian Connection, which earned significant accolades. For this recording the pair explore a rich and varied selection of French songs from the late 19th and 20th centuries.

1CD CHA 20222 $18.99

Rebirth / Sonya Yoncheva, sopranoThe lockdown of Spring 2020 allowed Sonya Yoncheva and conductor Leonardo García Alarcón to make the album they had been considering for ten years. Rebirth is a message of hope but also the exploration of an idea: that silence and inactivity are the best prelude to creative renewal. Yoncheva’s fourth solo album for Sony Classical includes music spanning more than five centuries, and some of the most powerful moments in 17th-century opera.

1CD SNYC 19439824022 $14.99

Elgar: Partsongs – From the Bavarian Highlands / Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks

The British composer Edward Elgar wrote a great deal more than just his “Pomp & Circumstance” marches: his highly diverse oeuvre encompasses symphonies, concertos, chamber works, piano music and numerous choral works (oratorios, cantatas and partsongs). On this release, partsongs by Elgar can be heard with and without accompaniment as part of a representative selection of live and studio recordings.

1CD BRK 900522 $16.99

Medtner: Songs / Sofia Fomina, soprano; Alexander Karpeyev, piano

Like his friend and contemporary Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner enjoyed a privileged and affluent upbringing, and was also exiled from Russia following the revolution in 1917. The earlier songs in this programme, Op. 36 and 37, were written against the backdrop of the revolution, shortly before he fled Russia. Op. 45 and 46 (written to Russian and German texts, respectively) were composed in France.

1CD CHA 20171 $18.99

Mendelssohn, Bruch: ,,… und dachte nicht an Liebe / Angelika Huber, soprano

German soprano Angelika Huber has made a considerable name for herself in the field of art song in recent years. One of the main focuses of her song recitals is the presentation of unusual repertoires. The present production documents exemplarily her commitment to the rediscovery of composers who have unjustly fallen into oblivion.

1CD BYR 100402 $18.99

Psalms & Hymns by John Christopher Smith, Johann Theile / David Erler, alto; L’arpa Festante

The alto David Erler works with many renowned conductors such as Laurence Cummings, Philippe Herreweghe, Jos van Immerseel, Ton Koopman, Hans-Christoph Rademann, to name but a few. Now, accompanied by the ensemble L’arpa festante under the direction of Rien Voskuilen, he presents his first solo release. The program includes sacred music from the Central German Baroque period – Psalms and Hymns of praise.

1CD CHR 77453 $18.99

Marschner: Songs for Baritone / Jeffrey Williams, baritone; Jennifer McGuire, piano

If German Romantic composer, Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861) is remembered today, it is for his dark, supernatural operas. Each of these operas happens to feature a baritone in the title role, which was quite unusual for the time. He also composer 420 songs, and a shockingly large number of them were composed specifically for baritone. This recording demonstrates how masterful Marschner truly was in composing for baritone.

1CD CEN 3846 $15.99

Schubert’s Women: Klaudia Tandi, mezzo; Gabriele Jacoby, recitation; Niall Kinsella, piano

The Austrian mezzo-soprano Klaudia Tandl, acting legend Gabriele Jacoby and the Irish pianist Niall Kinsella present with “Schubert’s Women,” Schubert songs and recitations by contemporary poets with a strong connection to women and the subject “love”. There are classics like Das Heidenröslein, Du liebst mich nicht, or Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, but also lesser known songs like Luisens Antwort, Thekla or Gretchens Bitte.

1CD GRAM 99223 $18.99

Amour éternel / Ekaterina Siurina, soprano; Constantine Orbelian, piano; Kaunas City Symphony

Internationally renowned soprano Ekaterina Siurina, in her first album for Delos, presents a choice array of beautifully sung French and Italian opera arias by Gustave Charpentier, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Sensitive and sonorous orchestral support comes courtesy of the Kaunas City Symphony orchestra under the baton of GRAMMY-nominated conductor Constantine Orbelian.

1CD DEL 3583 $16.99

Kathleen Ferrier – 20th Century British Treasures / Kathleen Ferrier, contralto

SOMM Recordings’ acclaimed series of re-mastered recitals by the much loved, fondly remembered contralto Kathleen Ferrier continues with Kathleen Ferrier: 20th Century British Treasures. Featuring recordings made for Decca and the BBC between 1946 and 1953, it includes a previously unpublished recording of Ferrier’s passionate performance of Lennox Berkeley’s Four Poems of St Teresa of Ávila.

1CD SOMM 5010 $18.99

Italian Opera Arias / Linda Richardson, sopranoBritish soprano Linda Richardson has performed extensively across the UK and continental Europe. Her extensive repertoire includes roles ranging from Monteverdi and Mozart to Janáček, Britten, and Wagner. Linda Richardson writes: ‘I have had the privilege of performing many of the great leading soprano roles in the operatic repertoire, but as my career progressed, I found a special love and affinity for the roles that stood as pillars in Italian opera.’

1CD CHA 20155 $18.99

Poison D’Amour / Oksana Volkova, mezzoThis richly rewarding album is Oksana Volkova’s first solo album on Delos, in which she delivers powerful, passionate and ravishing performances of well known French, Italian, Russian and Belarusian arias for mezzo-soprano. Glowing instrumental collaboration, as usual, comes courtesy of Maestro Constantine Orbelian, leading his trusty Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra.

1CD DEL 3584 $16.99

Grieg, Brahms, Lang, Schumann: The dark night has vanished / Catriona Morison, mezzoThis spellbinding recital marks the Linn debut of Scottish mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison. Lang’s unpublished setting of Gestern und Heute (‘Yesterday and Today’) is given its world premiere performance on this recording. Her distinctive style reveals an imaginative composer with a rich harmonic palette whose significant contribution to 19th-century German song deserves greater recognition.

1CD LINN 637 $18.99

Schubert: Wintereisse / Roderick Williams, baritone; Iain Burnside, pianoRoderick Williams and Iain Burnside complete their survey of Schubert’s song cycles with this recording of Winterreise. Composed in the late 1820s, towards the end of Schubert’s tragically short life, Winterreise is a setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller. This recording represents the culmination of a project that started back in 2015, when Williams accepted the challenge to prepare and perform all three song cycles in one season.

1CD CHA 20163 $18.99

Songs by Paderewski, Koczalski, & Szymanowski / Stanisław Kierner, bass-baritone; Michał Rot, piano

This release contains three series of songs by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Raul Koczalski and Karol Szymanowski, written to the poetry of European composers living at the turn of the 20th century: Catulle Mendès, Rainer Maria Rilke and Dmitri Davydov. The album, with interpretations of songs by Polish composers, falls on the tenth anniversary of the artistic cooperation between Stanisław Kierner and Michał Rot.

1CD DUX 1273 $19.99

Recommended Vocal Albums

Selige Stunde – Romantic Songs by Beethoven, Dvořák, Mozart / Jonas Kaufmann, tenor“Jonas Kaufmann records an album of wonderful, intimate Lieder songs with his long-standing pianist Helmut Deutsch Selige Stunde is the first recital in a small series of recordings made during the Corona crisis. Recorded at home, the intimate sound reflects the warm, personal and endearing mood of the songs. The varied and heart-felt selection of songs covers the most prominent Lieder composers.” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD SNYC 19439783262 $14.99The Last Songs of Robert Owens / Jamie Reimer, soprano

On January 5, 2017, Robert Owens passed away in Munich. He left behind a vital legacy of music that is just now being fully discovered. Soprano Jamie Reimer has studied the life and work of Owens extensively, and gave the world premiere of his 4 Sonnets to Eleonora Druse, which are on this album. Soprano Jamie Reimer has performed in opera, oratorio and recital venues around the United States, Italy, Germany, Brazil, and Australia.

1CD CEN 3841 $15.99

The Art of the Virtuoso Baritone / Giorgio Caoduro, baritoneGiorgio Caoduro is one of the leading Italian baritones of his generation and one of the reigning Bel Canto singers of today. He has appeared at such renowned opera houses as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra national de Paris, La Scala di Milano, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Regio Torino, San Francisco Opera, and the Los Angeles Opera House.

1CD GLS 923525 $18.99

Pergolèse, Vivaldi: Stabat Mater Pour Deux Castrats / Samuel Mariño, sopranoTwo countertenors for Pergolèse’s Stabat Mater: this is the resurrection of the first performance in France of this work, introduced by two Italian Castratos from the Royal Chapel of Louis XV.

1CD CHUV 033 $18.99

Long Time Ago – Copland, Britten, Barber / Adèle Charvet, mezzo; Susan Manoff, piano“While she has already attracted attention in the opera house, Adèle Charvet is also passionately interested in the song repertory. She’s at her best in jazz-inflected or declamatory numbers…” – Gramophone

1CD AHP 556 $18.99

Songs of Wintter Watts / John Carlo Pierce, tenor; Joel Bacon, pianoBorn in 1884 in Cincinnati, Wintter Watts, a prolific yet largely forgotten early 20th-century composer, wrote music filled with beauty, warmth, and depth.

1CD CEN 3824 $15.99

Solitude – Songs by Purcell, Schubert, Barber / James Gilchrist, tenor; Anna Tilbrook, pianoJames Gilchrist’s theme for this recital, Solitude, is reflected in contrasting ways by the four works. In his booklet note, he describes solitude as ‘A state of being that we need, that perhaps we overlook too easily…’

1CD CHA 20145 $18.99

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NEW RELEASES – EARLY 20TH CENTURY20th CenturyFrom the Early

Respighi: Concerto All’Antica / Davide Alogna, violin; Chamber Orchestra of New YorkOttorino Respighi was in the vanguard of the 20th-century rebirth of Italian symphonic music. Famed for his Roman Trilogy, Respighi was also prominent in the synthesis of pre-Classical melodic styles and late-Romantic harmonies and textures. These are the elements that make the Ancient Airs and Dances so captivating and expressive, as Respighi draws on dances by 16th-century composers to brilliant effect.

1CD NXS 8573901 $12.99

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 / Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violinPierrot Lunaire, premiered in Berlin in 1912, is a series of 21 short melodramas for voice and five instruments on German translations of poems by Albert Giraud. Here the composer first introduces Sprechgesang (speech-song), a technique that revolutionised declamation. Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the violinist who is also an occasional actress, had long dreamt of playing and reciting this unique work.

1CD AHP 722 $18.99

Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 / Jouni Somero, pianoSelim Palmgren, a Finland native, was one of the most prominent and prolific Nordic composer-pianists since Edvard Grieg. From early pieces influenced by Chopin via the tour de force of his only surviving Piano Sonata, to the darker Autumn Prologue – this is the first volume of a complete edition that includes première recordings of unpublished works, showcasing every side of Palmgren’s varied character.

1CD GRPO 867 $16.99

Balsys Violin Concerto No. 1 / Indrė Baikštytė, piano; Džeraldas Bidva, violin

This new album introduces to international audience the music of Eduardas Balsys (1919–1984), a key figure in Lithuania’s music from the 1950s until his death in 1984. This album release by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Modestas Pitrėnas includes three works from this award-winning composer, including his early breakthrough work, Violin Concerto No. 1, alongside two other orchestral scores.

1CD OND 1358 $14.99

Turning in Time / Kinga Augustyn, violinSome enthusiasts of traditional music consider the term “modern” a pejorative. They deem this genre to be a radical departure from the past. This collection refutes that conception – it demonstrates that musical ideas, turning in time, represent a continuum over the past several centuries. Kinga Augustyn has a large repertoire of more than 40 concerti that she has performed with such orchestras as the German Kammerorchester Berlin.

1CD CEN 3836 $15.99

Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 2, 5 & 8 / Arcadia QuartetThe 17 string quartets of Weinberg span nearly half a century, from his student days in Warsaw to the end of his career in Moscow, and show his development as a composer more clearly than his work in any other genre. Quartet No. 5 of 1945, was the first in which he added titles to each movement, and reflects the influence of Shostakovich over the young composer.

1CD CHA 20158 $18.99

Rediscovered: British Clarinet Concertos / Peter Cigleris, clarinet

Peter Cigleris performs with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a program of four ‘rediscovered’ clarinet concertante works of the first half of the 20th century. Composed between 1930 and 1947, the works span a time of change in the musical landscape of Great Britain; Pre 1939/40 the two predominant styles were those of Post-Romanticism and Nationalism, whereas post 1945, Modernism became the dominant style.

1CD SIG 656 $17.99

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 21 / Vasily Petrenko; Oslo PO

Prokofiev described his Fifth Symphony as “...the culmination of an entire period in my work. I conceived it as a symphony on the grandeur of the human spirit.” He regarded this symphony, composed in the summer of 1944, as his finest work. The first movement opens quietly and lyrically with a rising theme for flute and bassoon, but with the introduction of brass and percussion the hard-edged side of Prokofiev’s language becomes more evident.

1CD LAWO 1207 $16.99

Britten: Complete Folk Songs / Mark Milhofer, tenor; Marco Scolastra, piano [2 CDs]

It was probably Peter Pears, Britten’s partner in music and life, who drew the composer’s attention to the rich heritage of English folksong and its attractions, as a way to introduce texture, variety and a lighter tone to their song recitals together during the 1940s. “Totally absorbing… convincingly performed from the first note to the last. Each performer brings sincerity and enthusiasm to this varied repertoire.” (MusicWeb International )

2CD BLC 96009 $12.99

Escales: French Orchestral Works / John Wilson; Sinfonia of LondonJohn Wilson and his Sinfonia of London released their second album, following widespread critical acclaim for their first recording, of Korngold’s Symphony in F sharp. This new recording explores the unique sound world of French orchestral music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The program juxtaposes well-known favorites, such as Massenet’s Meditation from ‘Thaïs’, with pieces far more rarely heard, for example Duruflé’s Trois Danses, Op. 6.

1SACD CHA 5252 $19.99

A Clarinet in America / Alex Fiterstein, clarinet; English COThe clarinet has long been embraced by American composers for its jauntiness and jazzy flexibility, qualities heard in abundance on this album. We hear Leonard Bernstein’s Cuban-influenced Sonata, and the Sonatina by Budapest-born Miklós Rózsa, who made his name as a Hollywood movie composer. These pieces are bookended by two Aaron Copland works, his Concerto for American jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, and his Sonata.

1CD ORPO 100155 $16.99

Novák: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1: South Bohemian Suite / Moravian PO

Vítězslav Novák, a composition student of Dvořák, rose to prominence with a series of increasingly ambitious orchestral works that reflect his very personal amalgam of folk music elements, impressionism and late Romanticism. The far-ranging harmonies heard in Toman and the Wood Nymph earned Novák some notoriety – his evocation of supernatural magic and human passion results in music of heady intensity.

1CD NXS 8574226 $12.99

Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 ‘The Dead In The Square’ / Swedish Radio ChoirThe Twelfth Symphony forms an exception in Allan Pettersson’s output. The Swedish Radio Choir and Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, two of Sweden’s finest choirs, have combined their forces for this recording and join the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Christian Lindberg on the latest installment in the team’s acclaimed Pettersson cycle.

1SACD BIS 2450 $19.99

Britten: Cello Suites / Jacob Spahn, cello“Gift Voucher: six Suites for Slava” This note, scribbled on a paper napkin was a promise supposedly made in 1964 by Benjamin Britten to the cellist Mstislav Leopoldovich “Slava” Rostropovich. He wanted to compose for his friend a contemporary counterpart to Bach’s Solo Suites, which for any cellist are a sort of Old Testament in the cello repertoire. Britten took Baroque dance movements as a model and formed them into modern character pieces.

1CD HAN 20063 $18.99

Béla Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 & 5 / Jerusalem QuartetFrom the opening funeral dirge of the Quartet No. 1 to the incandescent frenzy that concludes the fifth, this disc offers a genuine panorama of the Bartókian universe. Two years after a first volume devoted to the even-numbered works (Nos. 2, 4 and 6), the musicians of the Jerusalem Quartet expertly complete their recording of a key cycle of modern chamber music, a musical saga drawn on the scale of a lifetime.

1CD HAR 902240 $19.99

Respighi: Roman Festivals / John Wilson; Sinfonia of London

“Wilson takes an altogether more balletic approach [than Tortelier]. But there is no lack of wallop: the opening of ‘Circenses’ has tremendous adrenaline... The Triton Fountain sparkles with vitality... There are dozens of versions of Respighi’s ‘Roman Trilogy’ available, but I’ve heard none better than this. The orchestral playing is magnificent, and its joy and exuberance are a tonic at this anxious, isolated period.” – BBC Music Magazine

1SACD CHA 5261 $19.99

Dreams Melting: Songs by Ferguson, Clarke, Finzi / James Geer, tenor; Ronald Woodley, pianoSomm Recordings is pleased to announce Dreams Melting, a revealing survey of British songs from the early 20th century by tenor James Geer and pianist Ronald Woodley. Setting seven poems by Thomas Hardy, Gerald Finzi’s Till Earth Outwears provides an intimate and movingly melancholic commentary in what Ronald Woodley describes in his extensive and informative booklet notes as a “male perspective on life, love and loss.”

1CD SOMM 0630 $18.99

Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1, Pastorale variée, Pan / Claudia Barainsky, soprano; BBC PO

In 1933, Paul Frankenburger immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he changed his name to Paul Ben-Haim. Some consider Ben-Haim the national composer of the young state established in 1948, 15 years later. The compositions on this album are closely linked to those dramatic years. Omer Meir Wellber, chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, makes his Chandos debut with this first album in a series dedicated to exploring the music of Israel.

1CD CHA 20169 $18.99

Trumpet Music of the 20th Century / Roderick MacDonald, trumpet, Mikyung Kim, pianoThis is a program of 20th Century trumpet music by some of the greatest composers of the first half of the 20th century. Roderick MacDonald (trumpet) and Mikyung Kim (piano) bring these great works fully to life.

1CD CEN 3682 $15.99

Pennisi: Complete Works for Solo Piano / Stefano Cascioli, pianoThis recording contains Francesco Pennisi’s complete works for solo piano, according to the latest catalogue. Pennisi’s piano pieces were composed in the period between the late 50s and the year 2000.

1CD SVS 37167 $16.99

Čiurlionis: The Sea, In the Forest, Kestutis Overture / Lituanian National SOThis release by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra includes the complete surviving symphonic oeuvre of the great Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.

1CD OND 1344 $14.99

Weinberg: Violin Concerto, Sonata for Two Violins / Madara Pētersone, violin; Gidon Kremer, violinGidon Kremer has dedicated himself to the rediscovery and cultivation of Mieczysław Weinberg’s music.

1CD ACTS 30518 $19.99

NEW RECOMMENDATIONS IN BRIEF

Recommended New Releases


NEW RELEASES – MODERNModern EraFrom the Vasks: Orchestral Works / Ivan Repušić; Uladzimir Sinkevich, cello;

Münchner RundfunkorchesterAll the works of the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks on this release are written for string orchestra: the three connected compositions “Musica serena” (2015), “Musica dolorosa” (1983) and “Musica appassionata” (2002), and also Vasks’ Concerto No. 2 for Violoncello and Strings. Vasks’ three instrumental pieces here are light-hearted, tragic, and passionate, providing an overview of the diversity of his work across three decades.

1CD BRK 900336 $16.99

Schulhoff: Flammen / Raymond Very, tenor; Iris Vermillion, soprano [2 CDs]Erwin Schulhoff’s early works feature a late Romantic approach influenced by Reger that later developed with an emphasis on rhythm in the direction of Expressionism and neo-Classicism, also including jazz elements. In this opera, Schulhoff brilliantly manages to find a different dramaturgical approach, on the one hand, and at the same time to pay a kind of alienated homage to Mozart’s work, on the other.

2CD CAP 5382 $22.99

Kaminsky: Fantasy – Oppens Plays Kaminsky / Ursula Oppens, pianoPianist Ursula Oppens, stalwart champion of 20th- and 21st-century American music and recipient of multiple GRAMMY nominations, celebrates her decades-long friendship and professional association with composer Laura Kaminsky on an album of world-premiere recordings. The program includes two recent works written for the pianist: Kaminsky’s Piano Quintet, and the turbulent Reckoning: Five Miniatures for America for piano four-hands.

1CD CDL 202 $16.99

Simpson: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis

“Robert Simpson wrote his Fifth Symphony in 1972 in response to a commission by the London Symphony Orchestra. One might say that another of Dr Simpson’s great influences is represented too; he has often acknowledged his debt to Beethoven and here he has in effect written a Pastoral symphony for the 20th century, a view of nature observed not through the eye of the individual but through the microscope.” – The Guardian

1CD LYTA 389 $14.99

Ferneyhough: Complete Piano Music 1965–2018 / Ian Pace, piano; Ben Smith, piano [2 CDs]

Brian Ferneyhough is well established as one of the leading figures in the avant-garde ‘new complexity’ school. His works, fiercely complex and requiring virtuoso performers, are nevertheless among the most successful in the Métier new music catalog. This album contains all of Ferneyhough’s music for piano from 1965 to 2018 including the Two Piano Sonata where Ian Pace is joined by Ben Smith.

2CD MTI 28615 $18.99

Kancheli: Simple Music / Jenny Lin, piano; Guy Klucevsek, accordion

Simple Music for piano is a collection of inspired fragments from themes of classic Georgian plays and films for the stage and screen by Gaya Kancheli (1935–2019). On this album the set is performed, improvised, arranged, even reimagined by the innovative pianist Jenny Lin and accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek as an engaging mixture of solos and duos.

1CD STEI 30173 $17.99

British Violin Sonatas / Simon Callaghan, piano; Clare Howick, violin

SOMM Recordings pays tribute to the remarkable flourishing of British Violin Sonatas in the 20th century with a collection of music for violin and piano by six key figures of the modern chamber music renaissance in Britain. From the middle of the century, William Walton’s Violin Sonata is unique in the composer’s oeuvre with its almost constant sense of nervous uncertainty. Violinist Clare Howick is accompanied by pianist Simon Callaghan.

1CD SOMM 0610 $18.99Vladigerov: String Concertos / Various Artists [2 CDs]

Pancho Vladigerov stands out as undoubtedly the most important composer for the musical self-conception of modern Bulgaria. Undoubtedly the most popular and most often performed composition of Vladigerov’s is his Bulgarian Rhapsody Op.16 “Vardar” – presented here, for violin solo and orchestra. It appears to genuinely tap into the character of Bulgarian life and absolutely nails a specific aspect of the entire country’s culture.

2CD CAP 8064 $16.99

Takemitsu: Complete Works & Transcriptions for Solo Guitar / Flavio Nati, classical guitar

Tōru Takemitsu (1930–1996) was certainly the most universally recognized composer that Japan has ever had. He has dedicated important works to the guitar, treated both as a soloist or in chamber and orchestral ensembles. He was accepted various times in the prestigious Accademia Chigiana (Siena, Italy), where he attended the course of Oscar Ghiglia.

1CD SVS 37150 $16.99

Martinaitytė: Saudade / Giedrė Šlekytė, Lithuanian Chamber OrchestraOndine’s releases on Baltic composers continue with a new exciting release featuring recent orchestral compositions by New York-based Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė. Composed within a span of six years, these works are performed by Lithuanian orchestras conducted by the young talented Lithuanian conductor Giedrė Šlekytė and pianist Gabrielius Alekna.

1CD OND 1386 $14.99

Bright Sheng: Let Fly, Zodiac Tales, Suzhou Overture / Dan Zhu, violin; Bright Sheng

Inspired by the image of a violin melody ‘flying off’, Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng’s virtuosic three-movement concerto Let Fly interweaves Chinese and Western classical elements. Vivid legends of astrological animals inform Zodiac Tales, a tour de force concerto for orchestra. Traditional nostalgia fuses with contemporary rhythms in the exciting Suzhou Overture. These works are featured here in their world premiere recordings.

1CD NXS 8570628 $12.99

Recommended Recent Releases

Holmboe: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 & 15 / Nightingale String Quartet

The Nightingale String Quartet turns to one of the great unsung quartet cycles of the last century, that of Vagn Holmboe (1909–1996). Volume 1 in this new cycle takes in the composer’s first published quartet, his momentum-fueled Quartet No. 3 and his taut Quartet No. 15 with its pathos-imbued funeral march. These are fresh new performances that support the idea that the deeper you dig into Holmboe’s music, the more you find.

1CD DACO 8226212 $13.99

Schreker: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 / Steven Sloane; Bochumer Symphoniker

Following the release of several operas by Franz Schreker during past years, CPO now turns to the orchestral works of a melodist and harmonist of the first order and had learned his craft so thoroughly at the Vienna Conservatory. The present program traces Schreker’s path from his studies with Robert Fuchs to his first enduring success – the captivating pantomime The Birthday of the Infanta (1908).

1CD CPO 777702 $16.99

Three Perspectives – Ned Rorem, Dan Locklair, Jennifer Higdon / Pangaea Chamber Players

The piano trio Pangaea Chamber Players explores the fickle nexus between music and visual art in their Navona release Three Perspectives. While the ensemble’s flute-cello-piano setup might evoke ideas of Baroque music, there are no such reminiscences to be found. Instead, the young trio presents three new compositions by contemporary composers.

1CD NVA 6279 $14.99

American Percussion Works / RDAM’s Percussion Ensemble Percurama

American Percussion Works is a rare collection of seldom heard works each with specific rules or themes as a basis for the compositions. In John Cage’s First Construction, the principle is based on the figure 16. Alberto Ginatera’s work Cantata para América Mágica, uses pre-Colombian texts based on the conditions of human life, with war, natural phenomena, daybreak, night and love.

1CD NXS 8574244 $12.99

Poulenc: La voix humaine; L’Histoire de Babar / Daniela Mazzucato, soprano

Words drew the best out of Poulenc. Among the most dedicated of his interpreters was the soprano Denise Duval, for whom Poulenc conceived La voix humaine in 1958 to a monodrama written by Jean Cocteau 30 years earlier and revised by the playwright for the lyric stage. The story is told here by the experienced tenor Max René Cosotti, who has filled countless roles in Italian opera and operetta at distinguished opera houses throughout Italy.

1CD BLC 96030 $10.49

Goodnight Mr. Górecki / Ewa Liebchen, fluteGórecki creates pieces where the flute and the piano can and do speak with one voice. Over time, this narrative also includes soprano and percussion, and the resulting contemplative and elegiac character of the entire program fits into the 10th anniversary of Górecki’s death and turns the entire album into a kind of a farewell ritual of that outstanding composer.

1CD DUX 1705 $19.99

Orlando Jacinto Garcia: String Quartets Nos. 1–3 / Amernet String Quartet

The music of the Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia inhabits a sonic universe of its very own, one where the musical landscape is constructed in order to evoke a thorough suspension of time. The three works on the present release correspond almost precisely to the past three decades of Garcia’s career and thus present for the interpreter and listener alike a kind of survey of his development.

1CD MTI 28613 $17.99

Derek Scott – Orchestral Music / Liepāja Symphony Orchestra

Derek Scott, born 1950, Birmingham, has an international reputation as a leading historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment but he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and a profoundly felt and natural response to his (often Celtic) subject matter. These works reveal a master craftsman and natural tunesmith.

1CD TOC 0589 $18.99

Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie / Günther Theuring; Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

The October Revolution of 1917 and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in Russia shaped young Hanns Eisler already for the rest of his life.The Deutsche Sinfonie is arguably Eisler’s most important composition; unique in its ingenious combination of symphony, cantata, and oratorio.

1CD CAP 5428 $16.99



NEW RELEASES – ORGAN

Organ ReleasesContemporary Composers

Karnevicius: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 / Vilnius String QuartetComposer Jurgis Karnavicius (1884–1941) made significant contributions to the cultural life in Lithuania after returning to his home country in the late 1920s. His String Quartet No. 1 contains folkloristic elements which bring to mind the late quartets of Dvořák. Karnavicius’ second Quartet shows first signs of a shift towards Expressionism. The Lithuanian Vilnius String Quartet offer world premiere recordings of these two forgotten gems.

1CD OND 1351 $14.99

Rodrigo Ruiz: Behold the Stars / Kerenza Peacock, violin; Huw Watkins, pianoSignum’s first album with Mexican composer Rodrigo Ruiz combines the composer’s musical and literary passions in performances by world-class soloists Kerenza Peacock, Huw Watkins and Laura van der Heijden. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Ruiz has attracted commissions from a number of artists, with both the opening Violin Sonata and ‘A riveder le stelle’ commissioned by Kerenza Peacock for this recording.

1CD SIG 664 $17.99

Alexander Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 / Dmitry Vasiliev; Siberian SOThe Muscovite Alexander Tchaikovsky (b. 1946) – nephew of Boris Tchaikovsky but no relative to Pyotr Ilich – is one of the most highly respected composers at work in Russia today, and yet his music has had little exposure to western audiences. His symphonic style owes something to that of his uncle: it likewise patiently develops enormous power over large expanses of sound, although there is also room for gently ironic touches of nostalgia.

1CD TOC 0587 $18.99

American Recorder Concertos / Michaela Petri, recorder; Nordic String Quartet

Michala Petri, the ‘First Lady of the Recorder’, invited four American composers to make their own discovery of just what an Old World Recorder can do. For the newest installment of her ground-breaking Concerto Project, four works have been specially commissioned to showcase the sound of the modern recorder, including the late Steven Stucky’s thoroughly contemporary Etudes, and Sean Hickey’s boldly-wrought A Pacifying Weapon.

1SACD OUR 8226912 $16.99

Per Nørgård & Poul Ruders / Works for Solo Cello / Wilhelmina Smith, cello

Cellist Wilhelmina Smith’s second album release on Ondine continues exploring contemporary Nordic repertoire for solo cello. In her new album Smith has focus on Danish contemporary composers, Per Nørgård and Poul Ruders. Both Nørgård and Ruders are known for their large-scale orchestral works. Nørgård, in particular, is known for his eight symphonies and has been hailed by many as one of the greatest living symphonists.

1CD OND 1381 $14.99

Felix Treiber: Chamber Music 2005–2018 / Leonhard-Trio Stuttgart; Various Artists [2 CDs]

Composer and violinist Felix Treiber’s works for orchestra, concertos, song cycles and various combinations for mixed ensembles have been performed in Europe, Japan, Russia and the USA. His compositions have been broadcast on different radio stations and released on albums. This two-album release showcases his chamber music written between 2005 and 2018.

2CD ATS 149009 $34.99

John Pickard: Chamber Music / Susan Bickley, mezzo; Nash Ensemble

Four previous releases on BIS have all featured John Pickard’s music for large orchestra – or, in the case of the Gaia Symphony, large brass band. This new album, on the other hand, presents scorings ranging from a solo oboe to a chamber ensemble of eight players. The seven works cover just over 30 years; the earliest one, Serenata Concertata, was Pickard’s first paid commission written at the age of twenty.

1SACD BIS 2461 $19.99

Dream Catcher / Poul Ruders; Odense Symphony Orchestra

Bridge’s Poul Ruders Edition, Vol. 16, features the world premiere recording of a major new Ruders concerto, the seven movement “Sound and Simplicity.” The album also includes Mogensen’s transcription of Ruders’s hypnotic “Dream Catcher” for solo accordion, and the re-issue of one of the Danish composer’s masterpieces – his 26 minute Symphony No. 3, which is subtitled “Dream Catcher”.

1CD BDG 9553 $16.99

John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy / Seattle Symphony Chorale [3 CDs]

Collected here for the first time, with newly remastered versions of Become Ocean and Become Desert by acclaimed engineer Nathaniel Reichman, The Become Trilogy pays tribute to a magical partnership between John Luther Adams, conductor Ludovic Morlot and the renowned Seattle Symphony. As a whole, the music speaks to the universally shared experience of living, giving and interacting as a citizen of the world.

3CD CPE 21161 $34.99

Ian Venables: Requiem / Gloucester Cathedral Choir; Jonathan Hope, organSOMM Recordings presents this premiere recording of Ian Venables’ exquisite and moving Requiem with the Choir of Gloucester Cathedral. The Requiem received its first performance in the imposing surroundings of Gloucester Cathedral, where this recording was made in 2019. Widely acclaimed for his songs and chamber music, the Requiem is a compelling piece full of fine melodies and gorgeous harmonies.

1CD SOMM 0618 $18.99

McDowall: Organ Works / William Fox, organCecilia McDowall is one of Britain’s most acclaimed composers. Her choral music, in particular, has earned her a worldwide reputation, yet an equally distinctive voice is revealed in her organ works. The O Antiphon Sequence, commissioned by the American Guild of Organists, is capricious, meditative and luminous. McDowall’s mastery of the miniature form is demonstrated in her contribution to a project to finish Bach’s incomplete Orgelbüchlein.

1CD NXS 8579077 $12.99

NEW RELEASES – CONTEMPORARY

December 1705 – Buxtehude & J.S. Bach: Organ Music / Manuel Tomadin, organIn October 1705, the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach took a four-week-leave to go and listen to Buxtehude: a 400-km-journey on foot. Such a unique, cosmopolitan voice evidently made a profound effect on the young Bach. Manuel Tomadin’s unique new recital imagines and stages this musical encounter. Some of Buxtehude’s grandest organ music is featured, including the D minor Passacaglia and the C major Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne.

1CD BLC 95941 $10.49

Rinck: Works for Organ / Bernhard Dreymann, organ [2 CDs]

Like Beethoven, Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770–1846) also celebrated his 250th birthday in 2020. As a composer, organ virtuoso, and expert in the service of Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was one of the outstanding figures in the history of church music in the 19th century. Professor Gerhard Gnann and his students play selected works by the composer on the Dreymann organ in St. Ignaz Church in Mainz, built in 1837.

2CD CVEL 92101 $29.99

Liszt: Complete Organ Works / Adriano Falcioni, organ [5 CDs]Liszt the piano virtuoso, the inventor of the orchestral symphonic poem, the apostle of ‘the music of the future’, is a familiar figure. Liszt the organ enthusiast is not so well known. His fondness for the instrument is shown by frequent references in his correspondence, and by a handful of original masterpieces. Adriano Falcioni’s recordings for Brilliant encompass many of the Romantic era’s most celebrated organ composers.

5CD BLC 95035 $18.99

Bruckner: Symphonie No. 9 in D Minor / Gerd Schaller [2 CDs]

Hailed as one of the most significant Bruckner exponents of our time, Gerd Schaller is a freelance conductor in constant demand from leading ensembles, concert halls and opera houses at home and abroad as guest conductor. Schaller notes “The organ is Bruckner’s instrument, which stayed with him all his life. The organ kept Bruckner company, then, right up to his death.”

2CD PRF 21010 $22.99

Carl Loewe: Und Die Organ / Irénée Peyrot, organCarl Loewe and the organ – this combination may astonish many music lovers today since Loewe is known almost exclusively as the master of the ballad. The Rühlmann Organ with its warm, fundamental sound and its orientation towards the late romantic sound ideal would have been a feast for the ears of the romantic Carl Loewe. The organist on the release at hand is Irénée Peyrot, Cantor and Organist at the Market Church in Halle.

1CD QRST 2013 $18.99

500 Years of Organ Music, Vol. 2 / Various Artists [50 CDs]In this new anthology of organ music, we delve deeper into the vast soundscape, discovering an eclectic range of composers and their equally varied works for what Mozart once described as ‘the king of instruments’. Naturally, a survey of the German organ music repertoire is not complete without the contribution made by the Bach family, and seven members of the family, including J.S. Bach, grace this set.

50CD BLC 96139 $99.99

Bingham: Heaven & Earth / Tom Winpenny, organJudith Bingham is established as one of the foremost British composers writing for the organ. The powerfully atmospheric and evocative music in this recording richly demonstrates her gift for creating compelling works which draw inspiration from a broad range of historical, literary and artistic sources. The Åkerman & Lund organ of Västerås Cathedral is the perfect vehicle for this colorful program.

1CD NXS 8574251 $12.99

Orgel in St. Jakobi Stralsund / Martin Rost, organThe idea for this release was to choose repertoire of the time of Johann Sebastian Bach and to present it with as many compositional forms of the organ as possible.

1CD QRST 2011 $18.99

American Classic Widor, Vol. 6 / Joby Bell, organThis is Volume 6 in Centaur’s complete traversal of the organ works of Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937), performed on classic American organs by Joby Bell.

1CD CEN 3768 $15.99

Fährmann: Orgelwerke, Vol. 5 / Dietrich Von Knebel, organOrgan player and specialist in German romantic organ music Dietrich von Knebel attends to the huge and multifaceted organ work of the Hans Fährmann.

1CD QRST 2012 $18.99

Pietro Yon: Complete Organ Music / Tommaso Mazzoletti, organ [3 CDs]Pietro Yon’s (1886–1943) music has a post-Romantic, mid-Atlantic flavour reflecting his background without belonging to a single ‘school’.

3CD BLC 95912 $14.99

NEW ORGAN RELEASES IN BRIEF


NEW RELEASES – PIANO


ReleasesNew Piano Brillon de Jouy: The Piano Sonatas Rediscovered / Nicolas Horvath, piano [2 CDs]

The thirteen sonatas on this premiere recording represent the complete music for solo piano by the Parisian keyboardist and composer Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy, a musician much celebrated in her day and greatly admired by Boccherini. These sonatas reflect a gloriously rich musical environment, incorporating and transforming elements from music of the time with great imagination and wit.

2CD GRPO 872 $24.99

Beethoven: Bagatelles / Vladimir Feltsman, pianoAlongside the many works of Beethoven that are staples of the concert repertoire there are a number of piano pieces that have not received as much attention as their more famous siblings and remain infrequently performed. This recording (with the notable exception of “Für Elise”) is dedicated to these works. Pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman is one of the most versatile and constantly interesting musicians of our time.

1CD NIM 6399 $18.99

Prelude to Dawn, Arrangments for Piano / Bruce Livingston, pianoBruce Levingston’s exquisite new release, Prelude to Dawn, features the interwoven, haunting works of J.S. Bach, Brahms and Rihm. In Levingston’s hands, this timeless music exudes solace, joy and the possibilities of renewed life. “During the surreal existence of this past year, I found myself drawn closer than ever to Bach. His music brought much solace and peace.” (Bruce Levingston)

1CD SUIN 92245 $14.99

History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 3 / The Brahms Trio

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s influence as composer and teacher was profound in Russia and beyond, yet his chamber music has been overshadowed by his operas and orchestral works. The unfinished Piano Trio in C minor was completed by Maximilian Steinberg to reveal a substantial work of considerable depth, while Borodin’s Piano Trio in D major is reminiscent of Mendelssohn in its joyous agility and nostalgic beauty.

1CD NXS 8574114 $12.99

Prokofiev: Complete Piano Sonatas / Dinara Klinton, piano [3 CDs]

Like many precocious composers, Prokofiev recycled themes and ideas throughout his career: the earliest example being the first of his numbered piano sonatas, which the composer reworked from a sonata originally composed when he was only sixteen. Stylistically, the Second Sonata of 1912 is much more like the mature Prokofiev in its structure, sonority and harmonic language, with the contrast of the romantic and the sardonic.

3CD PINC 10191 $18.99

Chukhajian: Piano Works – Mazurka; Grande Valse Fantastique / Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano

Tigran Chukhajian is highly significant in the history of Armenian music: he was the first composer to combine Western and Eastern cultures, and was referred to as the ‘Armenian Verdi’ amongst his contemporaries.These piano works are a sophisticated testament to Chukhajian’s Romantic inclinations, absorbing the influences of Chopin and Liszt, and enriching them with Oriental nuances and descriptive themes.

1CD GRPO 859 $16.99

Personal Demons – Piano Works by Busoni, Liszt, Schubert / Lowell Liebermann, piano [2 CDs]

Composer and pianist Lowell Liebermann says that “Personal Demons” consists of music that he has been personally haunted by – pieces by other composers that have preoccupied and inspired him for most of his compositional career. Framing these works on the album are three of Liebermann’s own pieces that have special significance for him.

2CD STEI 30172 $24.99

Debussy, Chopin, & Mussorgsky / Behzod Abduraimov, piano

Behzod Abduraimov joins Alpha for several recordings, starting with this ‘kaleidoscope of miniatures’ – miniatures that are in fact fairly gigantic, and showcase the Uzbek pianist’s extreme virtuosity and sensitivity. ‘Each movement is in itself a miniature, and taken together they form a kaleidoscope of human emotions and images of all kinds,’ says Abduraimov.

1CD AHP 653 $18.99

Grigory Krein (1879–1955): Piano Music / Jonathan Powell, piano

Grigory Krein (1879–1955), a member of an astonishing dynasty of Russian-Jewish musician-composers, was recognized by his contemporaries as one of the major composers of his day. His piano music charts a stylistic evolution from the early influence of Grieg, Reger, and Debussy towards a more complex and chromatic language with harmonies that synthesize the sound-worlds of Skryabin and Szymanowski.

1CD TOC 0581 $18.99

Alvin Lucier: Music for Piano XL / Nicolas Horvath, pianoAlvin Lucier is one of America’s foremost experimentalists, challenging the fundamental principles of music and focusing on acoustic phenomena and how listeners perceive them. Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators explores the acoustic ‘beating’ effects and tuning phenomena of sine waves against piano tones. This new version expands the listening experience in a work described as ‘immersive, intense and enigmatic’.

1CD GRPO 857 $16.99

Vida Breve / Stephen Hough, pianoThis stimulating recital from Stephen Hough spans centuries and styles with assurance. Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.2 and Hough’s own Piano Sonata No.4 are the twin peaks in a program that includes the unlikely pairing of Liszt’s Funérailles and Gouno’s Ave Maria.

1CD HYP 68260 $19.99

Spendiarov (1871–1928): Complete Piano Works & Chamber Works with Piano [2 CDs]

Alexander Afanasyevich was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and a close friend of Glazunov who wrote that he was a ‘musician with an impeccable, widely versatile technique’. Spendiarov’s music combines Russian and Armenian elements and is saturated in folkloric influence. His piano works, both for solo instrument and for chamber forces, show the range of his gifts, not least his romances and lullabies, and range across his entire compositional life.

2CD GRPO 852 $24.99

György Ligeti: The 18 Etudes / Danny Driver, pianoComposed during the 1980s and 1990s, Ligeti’s Études have already become modern classics, absorbing the attention of musicians and audiences worldwide. They are as feared for the uncompromising severity and intransigence of their technical demands as they are celebrated for their musical ingenuity, striking originality, range and variety of feeling, and astonishing diversity of musical and non-musical inspirations and resonances.

1CD HYP 68286 $19.99

Liszt: Buch der Lieder – Geharnischte Lieder / Alexandre Dossin, piano

Franz Liszt’s masterful command of the piano and his ability to transform vocal lines into purely instrumental sounds is evident throughout this album: the dramatic narrative in both versions of Die Loreley, the watery, arpeggiated texture of Am Rhein im schönen Strome and the orchestral qualities of Gastibelza being only a few examples of these pianistic treasures.

1CD NXS 8574106 $12.99

Clara Schumann: Piano Works / Junghwa Lee, pianoClara Wieck Schumann was a piano virtuoso, and a wonderful composer of piano works. Korean-born pianist Junghwa Lee brings these works to life with vital performances. Lee performs actively in solo recitals, chamber concerts and lecture recitals, and has frequently appeared in concerto performances as a soloist including those with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, and Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra among others.

1CD CEN 3840 $15.99

The Birth of the Étude: Piano Studies / Anna Petrova-Forster, piano

A number of prominent pianist-composers had already established the piano study, or étude, in the decades before Chopin sat down to write his. Although this repertoire is as good as unknown today, it is a treasure-trove of miniature jewels, many of them announcing the dawn of Romanticism in their combination of Classical delicacy and a new harmonic warmth.

1CD TOC 7005 $18.99

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No. 7, 23, & 28 / Jean-Nicolas Diatkine, pianoJean-Nicolas Diatkine comes from a family of recognized doctors and considers commitment to others to be the basis of his profession. It seemed impossible for him to do without this basic attitude in the exercise of his profession, which is why he always sees his artistic development as a return to the essential artistic values to which he has devoted himself over the last thirty years. Here, he performs Beethoven’s Sonatas Nos. 7, 23 & 28.

1CD SOLO 344 $18.99

Rachmaninov: Works for Piano / Irina Bogdanova, pianoThe piano remained at the heart of Rachmaninov’s life, both as composer and performer. Daisies (Margaritki) is the third of the Six Songs, Op. 38 of 1916 – the last group of songs written by Rachmaninov – and was later transcribed for piano by the composer in the early 1920s (the score is undated), Rachmaninov wrote his Polka de W.R. in March 1911. These works are performed by world-renowned pianist Irina Bogdanova.

1CD QTZR 2138 $16.99

Tangorama – An Anthology of 20th Century Tango, Vol. 1 / Mirian Conti, pianoThis panoramic survey of Argentine tangos shows the genre in all its rich variety of moods and virtuosity. It salutes Angel Villoldo, the father of tango.

1CD GRPO 856 $16.99

Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus / Pi-hsien Chen, piano [2 CDs]Pi-hsien Chen recorded Messiaen’s magnum opus for piano live in 2005, which impressively testifies to her exceptional status in the contemporary repertoire.

2CD GRAM 98015 $27.99

Ivan Moravec Edition / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Sir Neville Marriner [4 CDs]Long recognized as one of this century´s great pianists, Ivan Moravec’s performances and recordings alike have prompted critics in search of parallels to call up such names as Gieseking and Richter.

4CD HAN 20084 $22.99

Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer: Piano Music / Albert Brussee, pianoThe early piano music of the Dutch composer Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer (1888–1953) suggests the art of the miniaturist painter.

1CD TOC 0575 $18.99

NEW PIANO RELEASES IN BRIEF


NEW RELEASES – OPERA

Recommended Opera Releases

TitlesOpera Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia / Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini [DVD or Blu-ray video]

Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia is a dark and scandalous tale of murder and excess. Initially criticized for its audacious nature, the opera has since become appreciated as one of the great masterpieces of Italian bel canto repertoire with glorious arias and stirring choruses. Andrea Bernard’s spectacular Donizetti Festival production is “gripping and intense at every moment… this production ranks among the best all year.” (operawire.com )

1Blu-Ray Video DYN 57849 $29.992DVD-Video DYN 37849 $29.99

Hasse: Enea in Caonia / Carmela Remigio; Francesca Ascioti; Raffaella Lupinacci [2 CDs]The Enea Baroque Orchestra, founded by the mezzo-soprano Francesca Ascioti in 2018, is currently regarded as the best Roman Baroque authority because of the high quality of its musicians. On this album the ensemble turns to Johann Adolf Hasse’s masterpiece, the Neapolitan Baroque opera Enea in Caonia (Aeneas in Chaonia), a genuine gem within the genre of the serenata.

2CD CPO 555334 $33.99

Gounod: Faust / Ettinger Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House [DVD or Blu-ray video]Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes a bargain with the philosopher: Faust can have youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, but only in exchange for his soul. Gounod’s masterpiece is given the grandest of Royal Opera stagings in David McVicar’s richly layered and theatrically exuberant production.

1Blu-Ray Video BOA 7285D $34.991DVD-Video BOA 1330D $25.99

Orfeo 40th Anniversary Edition – Opera Rarities / Various Artists [10 CDs]

On the dark side of fame awaits the slide into obscurity. That’s certainly true for a many operas that, while popular during their composers’ lifetime, soon followed their creators into the shadowy realm of oblivion. Two examples for works that are scarcely performed or even known outside of what is now the Czech Republic are also included in this collection of Opera Rarities on ORFEO: Dvořák’s last opera Armida and Zdeněk Fibich’s Sarka.

10CD ORF 200081 $49.99

Wagner: Die Walküre / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestral; Simon Rattle [4 CDs]

“The orchestral playing and the pacing of the score are masterly. Act I is the highlight: Stuart Skelton’s heroic Siegmund confirms he has no rivals in this role, and Eric Halfvarson is as black-voiced a Hunding as you could wish for...the Valkryries (half of them Brits) are as good as any.” – The Sunday Times

4CD BRK 900177 $49.99

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera / Weiner Staatsoper [2 CDs]This opera about the murderer of Swedish King Gustav III was very well received by the audience, and remains one of Verdi’s most popular stage works. Like most modern performances, this recording is based on the Swedish version of the opera. Its first performance at the Vienna Opera House on the Ring was given in 1870 (exactly one year after the opening), and has since enjoyed well over 500 performances in this house.

2CD ORF 210062 $34.99

Beethoven: Fidelio / Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Weiner Symphoniker [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

None other than Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz has been engaged for the stage direction in this production of Fidelio from the Theater an der Wien. In his third opera production Waltz brilliantly stages the second version of the opera in the breathtaking set designed by the German-American architectural practice Barkow Leibinger. “An ingenious, enigmatic direction.” (Münchner Merkur )

1Blu-Ray Video UNTL 803304 $41.991DVD-Video UNTL 803208 $31.99

Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos / Thielemann; Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper [2 CDs]

This live recording of Ariadne auf Naxos in October 2014 took place not only at the site of the opera premiere of the version of the opera that we are best familiar with these days, but it also testifies Christian Thielemann’s first conducting engagement of a scenic performance of a Strauss opera at the opera house on the Ring. The cast includes Soile Isokoski as Ariadne, and Johan Botha – in one of his latest performances before his untimely death.

2CD ORF 996202 $34.99

Rameau: Dardanus / Purcell Choir; Dubois, Cyrille; Orfeo Orchestra [3 CDs]

György Vashegyi’s new recording of Rameau’s Dardanus superbly demonstrates the Dijon-born composer’s genius, but also the mastery which Vashegyi – with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir – has acquired in the music of the Late French Baroque. The dazzling array of solo singing featured here is accompanied, by turns, by joyful and mournful, festive and demonic choral interjections, all couched in an exuberant orchestral score.

3CD GLS 924010 $39.99

Dodgson: Margaret Catchpole – Two Worlds Apart / Perpetuo; Julian Perkins [3 CDs]Among Stephen Dodgson’s portfolio of more than 250 works are chamber operas, of which Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart is a most striking example. It is based on the true story of a woman who was convicted of the then capital crime of horse stealing and transported to Australia, and Dodgson conveys the romance and drama of the story with characteristic lyricism and rhythmic energy.

3CD NXS 8660459 $35.99

Prokofiev – The Fiery Angel / Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Sergey Prokofiev’s operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composer’s lifetime, but the music’s eloquent lyrical tenderness would re-emerge in his Third Symphony. Director Emma Dante describes this opera as an explosive mix of fantastical realism, and this Teatro dell’Opera di Roma production was acclaimed as “a presentation of Prokofiev’s masterpiece which sparkles in all its grotesque glory.” (operawire.com )

1Blu-Ray Video NXS 0113 $24.991DVD-Video NXS 2110663 $24.99

Béla Bartók’: Bluebeard’s Castle / Helsinki Philharmonic OrchestraComposed in 1911, Bluebeard’s Castle is Béla Bartók’s only opera – a radical masterpiece which has secured a place alongside the other innovative music dramas of the same period, from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande to Berg’s Wozzeck. Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra here performs Bartók’s darkly glittering, shimmering and threatening score in a live recording from 2020.

1SACD BIS 2388 $19.99

Le Corsaire / Ballet & Orchestra of Teatro Alla Scala [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

With fairytale-like staging and a “Pas de deux” that made Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn a legend, Le Corsaire is considered a choreographic milestone in the history of ballet. “Spinatelli has given the dancers ravishing costumes and the orchestra plays some of ballet’s biggest hits. La Scala’s ballet company in top form.” (Gramilano ) “A majestic staging and an excellent Dance Corps.” (L’ape Musicale )

1Blu-Ray Video CME 756304 $41.991DVD-Video CME 756208 $31.99

Heise: Drot og Marsk (King & Marshal) / Royal Danish Orchestra [3 CDs]This is a story about a struggle for power in old Denmark, and a magnificent opera about events which led to the murder of King Erik Clipping in 1286. To present this dramatic episode from Danish history, a power play rooted in love, jealousy and honor, Heise composed gripping music with a razor-sharp dramatic sense and great lyrical beauty. It is Danish romance at its most powerful and immediate.

3SACD DACO 6200006 $40.99

Hagen: Orson Rehearsed / Roger Zahab; Fifth House Ensemble

The opera film Orson Rehearsed is the psychological, emotional, and spiritual journey taken by the American actor, polymath, and creator of Citizen Kane Orson Welles, as he finds himself on the threshold between life and death. Fusing live players with pre-recorded sounds and effects, the film version of Orson Rehearsed has been a multiple award winner at festivals in the US, Europe and beyond.

1CD NXS 8669049 $12.99

Donizetti: Torquato Tasso / Various Artists [DVD Video]This work is captivating in its intensity and focuses on aspects of and moments in Tasso’s rich, eventful life. The music of Torquato Tasso is highly inventive – outstandingly so. If today’s audiences can strike a balance between the several approaches to stagecraft in this opera, Torquato Tasso will reveal new delights for the eye and ear and so become one of the finest instances of Donizetti at his most experimental and charismatic.

1DVD-Video BGV 20040 $31.99

Franco Alfano: Risurrezione / Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Franco Alfano’s opera Risurrezione draws its inspiration from Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection and was the work that ensured Alfano’s considerable success as a composer. The plot narrates the story of Katiusha and her tragic love for prince Dimitri who seduces and abandons her, condemning her to a life of sacrifice and desperation. Seen here in Fancesco Lanzillotta’s acclaimed Florence production, Risurrezione recalls Richard Strauss and Puccini.


Wagner: Lohengrin / Staatsopernchor Stuttgart; Staatsorchester Stuffgart [DVD or Blu-Ray video]What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, lying at the core of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. For his new production at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Schilling creates a coming-of-age tale, pervaded by the themes of responsibility, trust, and the relationship between the individual and the collective.

1Blu-Ray Video BAC 475 $29.992DVD-Video BAC 175 $29.99

Steffani: A Life for the Opera / Silvia Frigato, soprano; Ensemble CastorThe Italian soprano Silvia Frigato and the Castor ensemble trace the stages of Agostino Steffani’s life through a selection of arias from his operas.

1CD PAN 10423 $18.99

Korngold: Opera Highlights & Orchestral Works / Linz Bruckner Orchestra [4 CDs]As part of the greater trend of Korngold re-appreciation, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, under Caspar Richter, made these recordings for ASV in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

4CD CAP 7350 $22.99

Massenet: Thaïs / Sir Andrew Davis; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir [2 CDs]Following acclaimed performances at the Edinburgh Festival and then in Melbourne, Sir Andrew Davis’s recording of Massenet’s opera Thaïs features an outstanding cast.

2SACD CHA 5258 $39.99

Opera Fantasties on a Steinway / Antonio Pompa-Baldi, pianoThe collaboration between pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi and composer/pianist Roberto Piana continues with Opera Fantasies on a Steinway.

1CD STEI 30169 $17.99

OPERA RECORDINGS IN BRIEF


Recommended on Blu-ray & DVD

NEW RELEASES – VIDEOBlu-ray & DVD VideoTitles Available on

Czernowin: Heart Chamber / Ensemble Nikel; Vocal Ensemble [DVD or Blu-Ray video]The works of award-winning composer Chaya Czernowin have been performed worldwide at significant new music festivals and prestigious venues. ‘Heart Chamber’ uses voice and stage as internalized sonic and visual landscapes to create a genuine multi-sensory musical experience. This is a grand opera on the smallest of transformations, focusing on the intense beauty and vulnerabilities of falling in love.


West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim [DVD Video]The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra celebrated its 20th anniversary with this concert from the Berlin Philharmonie with world-renowned artists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto together with Maestro Barenboim and the young musicians.

1DVD-Video UNTL 803608 $29.99

Baltikum / SWR Vokal Ensemble / SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed [DVD or Blu-Ray video]The contemporary vocal music of the Baltic states is infused with the timeless resonances of a folk tradition dating back to pagan times, and created a sensation when it was first unleashed upon European concert halls in the second half of the 20th century. This very special program from the acclaimed SWR Vokalensemble represents the most eloquent and sophisticated choral repertoire of this region.

1Blu-Ray Video SWRM 19108 $19.991DVD-Video SWRM 19107 $19.99

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Queen / Scottish Ballet [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

The Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary year came to a spectacular close with the world premiere of The Snow Queen. This glittering new production is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s tale – which was also the basis for the Disney film Frozen. It is set to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, performed live by the full Scottish Ballet Orchestra. “Scottish Ballet’s Christmas present to us all... a truly memorable high.” (The Glasgow Herald )


Cavalli: Ercole Amante / Nahuel di Pierro [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the wedding of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV and the Infanta of Spain. The result is a sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production.


Essential Royal Ballet / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Katie Derham introduces highlights from the past ten years at the Royal Ballet, weaving the history of ballet through carefully curated excerpts from the past decade, and goes behind the scenes to see what it takes to be a dancer in the company of The Royal Ballet as they prepare to take to the stage. With stunning solos, passionate pas de deux and jaw-dropping numbers for the corps de ballet, it is a chance to see your favorite dancers up close.

1Blu-Ray Video BOA BD7282D $21.991DVD-Video BOA 1313D $21.99

Gluck: Alceste (Paris version 1776) / Bayerisches Staatsorchester [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Gluck’s late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and music. The opera “can be experienced here in all its existential power.“ (SZ) It is here performed in the revised Paris version from 1776 where Gluck has revalued especially the ballet music.


The State Opera, film by Toni Schmid / Bavarian State Opera [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

The State Opera is the first film ever made about the Bavarian State Opera, one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious and internationally esteemed companies. It charts the course of three operas – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Les Indes galantes and Un ballo in maschera – as they come to life on the stage. We meet some of the great singers in performance and behind the scenes, as well as artistic directors past and present.


Salzburg Festival: 100 Anniversary Edition / Various Artists [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Salzburg Festival, C Major presents this brilliant box set that features 10 outstanding Operas from the Salzburg Festival history including Simon Boccanegra, Salome, L’italiana in Algeri, Pique Dame, Die Zauberflöte, Otello, Der Rosenkavalier, Věc Makropulos, Fierrabras and Theodora. The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920.


Donizetti: Pietro il Grande / Orchestra Gli Originali; Coro Donizetti Opera [DVD or Blu-Ray video]Pietro il Grande, Kzar delle Russie was the first of Donizetti’s operas to receive more than one production. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the work’s première in 2019, the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo staged this rare melodramma burlesco in a new critical edition. The influence of Rossini and Mozart is clear, but the young Donizetti still managed to create a fresh work that displayed early evidence of his mature style.


Giordano: Andrea Chénier / Riccardo Chailly; Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Alla Scala [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Andrea Chénier, which premiered at La Scala in 1896, was last performed here 32 years ago by Riccardo Chailly. “By choosing to work with director Mario Martone, known for his films as well as his work in opera and theatre, Chailly has given overall coherence to his cinematic vision. This production is beautifully crafted and full of grim period detail. Riccardo Chailly conducted with vitality and drive.” (Financial Times )


Cinderella / Theatre of the Royal Opera House [DVD Video]

The much-loved story of Cinderella has captured hearts and minds for centuries and this historic color recording from 1969, full of dreams and magic, shows why. Infused with the drama of Prokofiev’s luscious score, the tale of transformation provided creative inspiration for Frederick Ashton’s acclaimed first full-length ballet.

1DVD-Video BOA 1333D $17.99

Brahms: Double Concerto / Christian Thielemann; Staatskapelle Dresden [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, cellist Gautier Capuçon, Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden present a sophisticated concert program of three great composers: Johannes Brahms, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Franz Liszt. In Brahms’ Double Concerto Lisa Bathiashvili is playing her Guarneri “with tenderness and devotion” (Der Neue Merker ). Her lyrical, velvety performance is contrasted by Capuçon’s more throaty and vibrating tone.


Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro / Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, “master” of period performance practice, realized a project that had long been one of his dearest wishes: for the first time, he and his “original-sound orchestra” Concentus Musicus and his personal choice of singers were presenting the complete Mozart/Da Ponte cycle and harvesting the fruits of his Mozart research.


Kit Armstrong Plays Wagner, Liszt, Mozart / Kit Armstrong, piano [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Bayreuth is not only the city of Richard Wagner, but also of his father-in-law Franz Liszt. Described by the New York Times as a “brilliant pianist” who combines “musical maturity and youthful daring in his exceptional playing”, Kit Armstrong performed at the famous Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, a masterpiece of Baroque theatre architecture, works by Wagner, Liszt and Mozart in a concert that was poetically poignant.


Mozart: Don Giovanni / Harnoncourt; The Da Ponte Cycle [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

“He was out to create something ‘unheard-of’,” observed conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt. And true to form: What the conductor had offer as he commenced his Mozart/Da Ponte cycle in the Theater an der Wien was something we “had never before heard like this” (Kurier ). “The culmination of Harnoncourt’s involvement with [Mozart’s Da Ponte operas] – A Mozart drawn from historical sources and yet anchored in our own time.” (Die Presse )


Shakespeare: Timon of Athens / Royal Shakespeare Company [DVD Video]

‘A parable for our times’ (Daily Telegraph ) In a world driven by greed, what do we truly value? Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. When the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gone. Left alone, she flees Athens to take refuge in the woods, cursing the city she once loved. Simon Godwin directs Kathryn Hunter as Timon in this dark satire, which forces us to question where does happiness really lie?

1DVD-Video BOA 1311D $21.99

Frida Kahlo – Exhibition On Screen [DVD Video]Come on a journey through the life of one of the most prevalent female icons: Frida Kahlo. She was a prolific self-portraitist, using the canvas as a mirror through all stages of her turbulent and, at times, tragic life. Featuring key exhibitions and interviews with world-renowned Kahlo curators, this DVD presentation explores the extraordinary symbolism and themes in these personal canvases to seek a deeper understanding of the real Frida Kahlo.

1DVD-Video SHAP 210 $21.99

Plácido Domingo: 50 Years at the Arena di Verona / Plácido Domingo; Various Artists [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

What a pompous and exquisite gala to celebrate opera legend Plácido Domingo in the breathtaking Arena di Verona! 50 years ago the young Madrilenian singer Plácido Domingo gave his debut at the ancient open-air theatre. To mark the anniversary, Domingo presents a program entirely dedicated to Verdi, performing three of his most complex and majestic baritone roles. A triumphal, almost historic moment for Domingo and the Arena di Verona!


The Cellist / The Royal Ballet; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House [DVD or Blu-Ray video]

Internationally acclaimed choreographer Cathy Marston created The Cellist for The Royal Ballet in 2020. The inspiration for her first work for the Royal Opera House Main Stage is the momentous life and career of cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Composer Philip Feeney incorporates some of the most moving and powerful music for cello by Elgar, Beethoven, Faure, and Schubert into an exquisite score that is itself an homage to the cello.



NEW RELEASES – JAZZ

Featured New Jazz Albums

TitlesNew Jazz

We Are / Jon Batiste, piano, vocalsWe Are is a career-changing album from musician and activist Jon Batiste. We Are celebrates Black American culture and music while exploring themes of lineage, authenticity, excellence and evolution. This album is about honoring roots and traditions, while looking forward to the future and constantly evolving. Featured guests include Mavis Staples, Zadie Smith, PJ Morton, Trombone Shorty, Steve Jordan, and many more.

1CD VRV B003335802 $18.99

Come What May / Jane Monheit, vocalsWhen the luminous Monheit arrived on the scene 20 years ago with her debut, Never Never Land, she won over fans via renditions of standards such as “My Foolish Heart,” “I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)” and Jobim’s “Dindi.” “On her latest album, Come What May, Monheit continues to dazzle, delivering a program chockfull of standards, such as ‘Lush Life,’ and Jobim’s ‘Samba Do Aviгo.’” – DownBeat Magazine

1CD PVNT 64315744948 $14.99

In His Own Sweet Time / Tommy Flanagan, piano“With a name revered in the jazz world but almost totally unrecognized elsewhere, Tommy Flanagan, who died in 2001, was the complete pianist. In its first releases, this 1994 live album shows his phenominal range in full bloom. The 10 tracks include such rare delights as Tadd Dameron’s ‘If You Could See Me Now’ and Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Day Dream.’ – The Guardian

1CD EJAR 9687 $18.99

Sounding Point / Mark Feldman, violinThe New York violin virtuoso Mark Feldman presents a new solo album, a portrait of the artist now, some 26 years after his first solo album. Sounding Point contains six of his own compositions as well as one piece each by Sylvie Courvoisier and Ornette Coleman. The American jazz critic Kevin Whitehead writes in the liner notes: “In my 30+ years following violinist Mark Feldman, no record I know shows him off better than Sounding Point.”

1CD ITKT 354 $19.99

Jazzpar Quartet + 4 / Jim Hall Quartet“Jim Hall was the winner of the 1998 Jazzpar Prize, given annually by the Danish Jazz Center; the resulting concerts which followed are a valuable addition to Hall’s considerable discography. The veteran guitarist is joined by tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Thomas Ovesen and drummer Terry Clarke. His duet with Potter on the closer, ‘In A Sentimental Mood,’ brings things full circle on this very successful CD.” – AllMusic Review

1CD STF 1018476 $17.99

Two Roses / Avishai Cohen, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

‘Two Roses’ is by Avishai’s words “a once in a lifetime project”. Associating his core trio (Mark Guiliana, Elchin Shirinov) with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Avishai Cohen offers a very cinematic project between Jazz, Mediterranean Folklore and Classical music, reexploring a part of his musical journey.

1CD NAI 7369 $16.99

Turn Out the Stars: The Music of Bill Evans / Pinheiro, Ineke, Cavalli

Inspired by the music of the extraordinary pianist Bill Evans, the Pinheiro Inek Cavalli Trio explores in this new album musical landscapes constructed from delicate arrangements and intricate musical interaction. The trio also reaches a new level of maturity and consolidated artistry in their musical discourse and improvisation. The album also features works by Michel Legrand and Leonard Bernstein, all in arrangements by the trio.

1CD CHL 73523 $16.99

Benny Goodman / The Small Bands Collection 1935–1945 [3 CDs]

Clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman was one of the giants of the swing era, with his orchestra pioneering the genre in the late ‘30s and riding the big band wave through into the post-war era. This 70-track 3-CD set brings together a significant proportion, but excluding vocal performances, of the titles he recorded in Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet and Septet environments the heyday of his swing orchestra.

3CD AOAT 9103 $20.99

Jazz – Sinfonie in G – Heidelberger Jazztage 1971 / Friedrich Gulda; Radio-Orchester Stuttgart

Friedrich Gulda’s “Symphony in G”, presented on this album, was discovered in the SWR archive in the course of research for the release of works the Austrian pianist made for the German Southwest Broadcasting Corporation. One of Gulda’s few compositions without improvisation to be heard here is No. IV from the ten-part piano cycle “Play Piano Play”. “Prelude and Fugue,” Gulda’s favorite work, was the last piece of his Heidelberg performance.

1CD SWRM 19096 $13.99

Yuko Mabuchi Plays Miles David / Yuko Mabuchi, piano; JJ Kirkpatrick, trumpet; Del Atkins, bassYuko Mabuchi Plays Miles Davis took the jazz world by storm when it was initially released, pleasing audiences and critics alike. Advances in SonoruS Holographic Imaging technology enabled engineers Steve Hoffman, Bob Attiyeh and Arian Jansen to remaster this album in honor of Yarlung’s 15th Anniversary. Bob Levi, chairman of LAOCAS, wrote of the original “Yuko Mabuchi Plays Miles Davis is much better than superb. It is historic!”

1CD YARL 78690 $19.99

Road to the Sun / Pat Metheny, guitarPat Metheny presents Road to the Sun, the latest chapter in an endlessly innovative career that spans nearly five decades. A collection of two major classical works composed by Metheny and performed by five of the world ́s leading guitarists, Road To The Sun unveils new facets of an already expansive personal language while obliterating any genre boundaries that stand in it’s way.

1CD MDRE 39322 $14.99

Best of Beegie Adair: Jazz Piano Performances / Beegee Adair, piano

18 signature jazz trio performances from iconic jazz pianist, Beegie Adair. For more than 20 years, Adair has been a legacy artist in the Green Hill Music catalog producing 23 top jazz recordings that have delighted listeners around the world. With her lyrical style, her intimate touch, and her expertise in interpreting the American songbook, Ms. Adair has cemented her standing in the jazz community as one of the all-time greats.

1CD GENH 2755635223 $14.99

New York 2020 / José James, vocals [2 CDs]José James: New York 2020 is the first highly anticipated live album from an artist with a decade long career built on his electric live show. Despite an entire year without shows, James found a way to create and connect with audiences during the peak of the Coronavirus NY lockdown. Each song resonates with the creative urgency of an effervescent, resilient 2020 New York City.

2CD RWBL 45 $18.99

Zurich Concert / Dave Gisler, guitarThree years after their celebrated debut album Rabbit on the Run, the Dave Gisler Trio presents a live recording. It’s clear from the start that this musician’s energy fires up the Dave Gisler Trio, and in turn the trio’s inspiration has an effect on the trumpeter which feeds back into the group. “The music on the Zurich Concert strikes a chord, in a time shaken by emotions and extremes,” writes Pirmin Bossart in the liner notes.

1CD ITKT 357 $19.99

Breathe / Dr. Lonnie Smith, organOn this night the good doctor took the stage with an expanded line-up featuring Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar, Johnathan Blake on drums, John Ellis on tenor saxophone, Jason Marshall on baritone saxophone, and Sean Jones on trumpet. Two additional studio tracks open and close the album, presenting the unique collaboration between Doc & Iggy Pop including a sublime cover of Donovan’s 1966 hit “Sunshine Superman.”

1CD BLU B003327702 $18.99

Americana / Grégoire Maret, harmonica; Bill Frisell, guitar

Grégoire Maret writes of his new release with Romain Collin: “We considered making a record that would feel like a book of songs, and both felt that Bill Frisell would be a perfect fit for this project. This repertoire is inspired by the varied roots of American music and culture. It is that ethos of openness and diversity that drew Romain and I to migrate to the US, and we wanted to pay tribute to this vision of America in this album we call Americana.”

1CD AMV 9049 $18.99

A Gershwin Playground / Guy Mintus TrioThe young Israeli pianist, vocalist, and composer Guy Mintus is equally at home when he is on stage with the Jazz legends, composing for classical orchestras, working with masters of traditional music or working as a guest soloist with the Ska Punk band Street Light Manifesto with whom he had a sold out concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York.

1CD YEOW 9683 $18.99

Afterallogy / N.O.A. vocals; Gil Dor, guitarAfter all is said and done, after 30 years, after a pandemic which shattered the world, after thousands of kilometers travelled and many more thousands of notes played and sung, what remains? A deep love and respect for great music and the greatness in music, a deep love for the humanity that is brought to life by it, a deep appreciation for the gift of friendship. Finally, we’ve given it a name: Afterallogy.

1CD NAI 7378 $16.99

Magic Dance – The Music of Kenny Barron / Greg Abate [2 CDs]There’s a beautiful marriage happening with Greg Abate’s “Magic Dance.” It’s the union between Abate’s multi-instrumental gift of bebop and Kenny Barron’s varied and sublime compositions.

2CD WHCT 126 $24.99

The Count Basie Collection 1937–1939 / Count Basie & His Orchestra [3 CD]This 63-track 3-CD set comprises Count Basie’s releases for Decca during the late 30s, which laid down a marker as to the talent and style of his bands.

3CD AOAT 9105 $19.99

Inner Tide / Anette von Eichel, vocalsAnette von Eichel’s latest release, Inner Tide, unites a top-class instrumental combo with pianist Sebastian Sternal, bassist Henning Sieverts, drummer Jonas Burgwinkel and saxophonist Jasper Blom.

1CD DUEM 71375 $14.99

Time Outtakes / Dave Brubeck, piano; Paul Desmond, saxophone; Joe Morello, drums; Eugene Wright, bassThese newly discovered recordings feature wonderful performances that are every bit as compelling as those on the original Time Out.

1CD BBKE 20200901 $16.99

NEW JAZZ TITLES IN BRIEF


MACK AVENUE RECORDS

Mack Avenue RecordsWhaling City SoundWHALING CITY SOUND

Cool Water / Greg Murphy, piano; Jeff Watts, drums; Eric Wheeler, bass

It is glad tidings indeed that Whaling City Sound announces the release of a new Greg Murphy recording. In fact, the news is almost as joyous as the sound of Murphy’s piano. Cool Water is both heartwarming and exhilarating. Greg’s fingers find delicate and exciting ways of expressing themselves across the keys. It is the sound of a blissful talent given a new lease, as well as the opportunity to rediscover his true and glorious gift.

1CD WHCT 125 $16.99

Just Passing Thru / Miles Donahue, trumpet, saxophone; Joe Santerre, bass; Larry Dinn, drums

It may or may not be a fact that jazz musicians age with grace and class. Perhaps someday we will understand this idea better. But in Miles Donahue’s case, the concept certainly bears out. His latest album, coming on the heels of The Bug, Just Passing Thru is large in scope and beautiful in execution. From song to song, there are moments of tenderness, passages of grandeur, and fistfuls of exhilarating, technical wonder.

1CD WHCT 124 $16.99

Space Cycles / Jim Robitalle, guitar; Bill Miele, bass; Chris Pounder, drums

After a brief interlude in a group format, Jim Robitaille is back inside the sparse and generous spaces of his trio. The colors throughout these arrangements pulse and glow, embracing a spectrum of musical emotion, while Robitaille’s guitar tone also explores the range of what is possible within the framework he’s set for himself. Bill Miele and Chris Poudrier buttress Robitaille’s work with sturdy, confident rhythm.

1CD WHCT 122 $16.99

Watershed / John Stein, guitar; Zé Eduardo Nazario, drums; Daniel Grajew, piano; Frank Herzberg, drums

There’s really something to the idea that experience helps you see things more clearly. On the transcendent Watershed, guitarist John Stein’s 15th recording, Stein and his simpatico band realize this set of deep grooves with remarkable clarity. Stein is aided by the considerable talents of his band, including Frank Herzberg (bass), Zé Eduardo Nazario (drums), Daniel Grajew (keyboards), and Teco Cardoso (flute and saxes).

1CD WHCT 121 $16.99

Earth: Expansions / The Dave Liebman GroupNEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman presents Earth with his group Expansions (Bobby Avey on piano, Matt Vashlishan on reeds, Alex Ritz on drums along with the perennial Tony Marino on bass). Earth is the culmination of Liebman’s decades-long elements series, a focal point of the iconic artist’s career spanning 30 years.

1CD WHCT 120 $16.99

Excursions and Adventures / Tim Ray, Terri Lyne Carrington, John Patitucci

As many know, pianist Tim Ray, bassist John Patitucci , and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington have diverse backgrounds, styles, and experience, but share a common connection to Berklee College. They come together on Excursions and Adventures, a powerful inaugural recording session for this trio that often transcends description with its gorgeous fidelity, colorful arrangements, and fabulous, nuanced performances.

1CD WHCT 119 $16.99

The Golden Rule: for Sonny / Eric Wyatt, saxophone; Russell Malone, guitar; Benito Gonzalez, piano

Eric Wyatt’s latest, The Goldern Rule: for Sonny, is his inimitable way of paying tribute to those strong boppers of the past, joined by talents that have been contributing valiantly to the vibrancy of today’s jazz scene – guitarist Russell Malone, pianist Benito Gonzalez, trombonist Clifton Anderson, tenor J.D. Allen, and emerging youth like Giveton Gelin on trumpet and pianist Sullivan Fortner. Together, the posse exudes both class and bold promise.

1CD WHCT 117 $16.99

Our People / Gerry Gibbs, Thrasher People BandMulti-instrumentalist and composer Gerry Gibbs returns with his 12th album as a leader, Our People. Unlike anything the visionary musician has ever produced before, this epic, 19-part suite is a sonic masterpiece that pays tribute to the many different cultures that make up our world. The amalgamation of styles and influences create a significant sound that seems to transcend genre while awing listeners.

1CD WHCT 115 $16.99

Gratitude – Stage Door Live at The Z / Greg Abate & The Tim Ray Trio

On his fourth recording with the Tim Ray Trio, Greg Abate and friends search for and find the true essence of jazz. With no formal rehearsals, and subsequently, no overdubs, mulligans, and redos, the band captures its performance in truth, in full, and in the moment. Abate and his cohorts cruise through a slate of mainly originals, along with Joe Henderson’s “Inner Urge” and Roland Kirk’s “Serenade to a Cuckoo.”

1CD WHCT 0114 $16.99

Multicultural Ensemble: Stories Told / Dave Zinno Unisphere

Picking up where the enrapturing “River of January” left off, the Dave Zinno Unisphere’s follow-up, “Stories Told,” further explores the wild and beautiful jungle of jazz, more specifically, the Brazilian/Latin tributary: electric, funky, passionate, and rhythmic. The ensemble is supreme and ambitious, benefiting from having a recording under their collective belt and refinement of the Unisphere mission.

1CD WHCT 113 $16.99

This Bitter Earth / Veronica Swift, vocalsVeronica Swift’s captivating album, This Bitter Earth, crafts an ingenious song cycle that tackles sexism [“How Lovely to Be a Woman”], domestic abuse [“He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)”], and other current issues. Swift gathered material that covers multiple genres, including jazz, American musicals and contemporary indie-rock fortifying her position as a leading force in genre-bending song presentation.

1CD MCKA 1177 $17.99

Future Stride / Emmet Cohen, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drumsOn his latest album, pianist Emmet Cohen revisits one of the music’s earliest forms without a trace of quaintness or throwback pastiche by meticulously covering the genre’s lexicon spanning the past century and melding its context with “modern” music. Future Stride instead finds the immediacy in a stylistic approach that can speak volumes to modern listeners open to recognizing its thrilling vitality.

1CD MCKA 1181 $17.99

MONK’estra plays John Beasley / MONK’estra Big Band

2021 GRAMMY winner! Over the course of two albums, bandleader/composer/arranger John Beasley has reimagined Thelonious Monk’s iconic compositions through the vehicle of his inventive, versatile MONK’estra With MONK’estra Plays John Beasley, this time out the band shifts focus to its fearless leader’s own estimable compositions.

1CD MCKA 1172 $17.99

Jackets XL / YellowjacketsFor Jackets XL, Yellowjacket’s 25th album, the band continues to stretch and reinvent itself with an exciting, full-bodied collaboration with the superb WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany. The project combines the shapeshifting quartet with the renowned big band, re-imagining well-known band originals with dynamic new arrangements that feature twists and turns, moving harmonies and bold solos.

1CD MCKA 1175 $17.99

The Window / Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals; Sullivan Fortner, piano

The Window is an album of Cecile McLorin Salvant duets with the pianist Sullivan Fortner, explores and extends the tradition of the piano-vocal duo and its expressive possibilities. With just Fortner’s deft accompaniment to support McLorin Salvant, the two are free to improvise and rhapsodize, to play freely with time, harmony, melody and phrasing.

1CD MCKA 1132 $17.99

Nightconcert / Erroll Garner, pianoThis newly-restored live performance from the Erroll Garner archives was recorded at the height of his 1964 sold-out European tour. Nightconcert documents a midnight jazz performance held at The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Recorded on November 7, 1964, it features Garner with his classic trio (bassist Eddie Calhoun and drummer Kelly Martin) performing to a packed house of 2,000 enraptured fans.

1CD MCKA 1142 $17.99

Iron Starlet / Connie Han, pianoAs the title makes vividly clear, pianist Connie Han’s career may be in the early stages of what promises to be a vertiginous climb, but the 23-year old is no wide-eyed aspirant, timidly searching for her place in the crowded jazz landscape. One listen to Iron Starlet is ample evidence that she’s every bit an armor-clad talent as the name implies.

1CD MCKA 1171 $17.99

Reincarnation / Warren Wolf, vibraphoneOn his latest album, however, Wolf reveals an entirely different side to his multi-faceted talents. As the title implies, Reincarnation represents a rebirth of sorts for the Baltimore vibesman. In part it frees Wolf to indulge his love for the R&B and soul hits that served as the soundtrack to his formative years in the 1990s. It’s also a celebration of a new lease on life, a happiness that he’s discovered through a new marriage and his five beloved children.

1CD MCKA 1169 $17.99

In the Key of the Universe / Joey DeFrancesco, organOn his adventurous new album, In The Key Of The Universe, master organist Joey DeFrancesco turns his musical attentions to his spiritual side.

1CD MCKA 1147 $17.99

Te Lo Dije / Harold López-Nussa, pianoOn his vibrant third recording for Mack Avenue, pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa sets out to capture the exhilarating marriage of jazz and Cuban pop music.

1CD MCKA 1179 $17.99

Be Water / Christian Sands, pianoOn his stunning new album, Be Water, pianist Christian Sands takes inspiration from water’s tranquility and power and muses on the possibilities offered by echoing its fluidity and malleability.

1CD MCKA 1170 $17.99

Love Hurts / Julian Lage, guitar; Jorge Roeder, bass; Dave King, drumsLove Hurts sees the GRAMMY Award-nominated guitarist Julian Lage exploring the American song catalog from a truly unique vantage point.

1CD MCKA 1148 $17.99

MACK AVENUE RELEASES IN BRIEF


RECOMMENDED JAZZJazz for SpringRecommended The Lost Berlin Tapes / Ella Fitzgerald

The First Lady of Song returns to Berlin, home of her legendary concerts. Recorded in 1962 but never released, hear the most popular jazz singer of all time deliver an iconic performance at Sportpalast Berlin for the first time. This recording finds Ella and her band at the top of their game. With only two songs repeated from her hit record “Mack The Knife” two years earlier, this undiscovered recording stands on it’s own.

1CD VRV B003259002 $18.99

Authentic New Orleans Jazz Funeral / Magnificent Seventh’s Brass Band

Travel to New Orleans for a funeral march that will make you feel like dancing! This celebration includes old-time gospel songs like “Down by the Riverside,” “Just a Closer Walk with Thee,” “When the Saints Go Marching In,” and 11 more pure emotional favorites by the famous Magnificent Seventh’s Brass Band featuring some of New Orleans’ top musicians.

1CD MGRS 1012 $19.99

The Collection 1952–1953 / Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker [2 CDs]

Saxophonist extraordinaire Gerry Mulligan was one of the leading lights in the “cool jazz” movement. In 1952 he began a legendary collaboration with the young lyrical trumpeter Chet Baker. This 46-track 2-CD set comprises most of the recordings they made together during this time as part of Gerry Mulligan’s quartet, offering fascinating insights into the way Mulligan and Baker developed an intuitive rapport.

2CD AOAT 3339 $14.99

The Best of Pete Fountain / Pete Fountain, clarinetThe 22 tracks on this disc offer highlights of clarinetist Pete Fountain’s work on the Coral label (1959–71), recordings generally considered to be his finest. A consummate Dixieland Jazz musician with great crossover appeal, these two sides of Pete’s playing can be heard to great effect on such tunes as “Bye Bye Bill Bailey”, “High Society”, “My Blue Heaven” and “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans”.

1CD GRP GRD665 $16.99

My Art of Gypsy Jazz / Pietro Lazazzara, guitar; Antonio Solazzo, bass

Pietro Lazazzara writes: “The work “My Art of Gypsy Jazz” consists of 14 compositions. 11 pieces are original that have never been published, while 3 pieces were created by Gypsy music composers. The title of the album fully expresses my vision of traditional Gypsy Jazz and its possible projection into the future. My academic career as a classical guitarist, my Jazz Music and Flamenco studies have contributed to the creation of my compositions.”

1CD SVS 57920 $16.99

Late Night Jazz / Frank Sinatra; Billie Holiday; Nat King Cole & more

This jazz collection is deliberately easy listening; relaxing and enjoyable, with strong melodies and a gentle swing. Sinatra, Holliday, Ella, Nat and many more stars in possibly the ultimate fantasy night club program! Relax into the small wee hours with numbers like “Sweet Lorraine,” or enjoy “April in Paris,” and “Dream a Little Dream.”

1CD PID 956606 $16.99

The Real…Erroll Garner / Erroll Garner [3 CDs]Erroll Garner personifies the joy of fearless virtuosity and exploration. His playing celebrated the greatest swinging big bands through an innovative and impossible pianism. Singular yet all embracing, Garner blurred the line between great art and popular art, and he was a staunch journeyman of the blues and his Pittsburgh legacy.

3CD COLB 5305632 $14.99

But For Now / Bob Dourough, pianoEnja presents the final recording of American jazz legend, pianist and songwriter Bob Dorough. But For Now, recorded in 2014, is an intimate trio session with Dorough on piano and vocals, saxophonist Michael Hornstein and bassist Tony Marino. With tunes taken from the great American songbook, Dorough shows his lifelong talent of making any tune his own with his unique style and unforgettable southern drawl.

1CD EJAR 9627 $18.99

The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul / Branford Marsalis Quartet

The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul finds the celebrated ensemble at a new peak, addressing a kaleidoscope of moods with inspiration and group commitment. The quartet that saxophonist Branford Marsalis has led for the past three decades has always been a model of daring, no-apologies artistry, of ever-widening musical horizons and deepening collective identity.1CD OKEH 19075914032 $14.99

Time Remembered – The Life and Music of Bill Evans [DVD Video]

This award-winning DVD documentary tells the story of influential jazz pianist Bill Evans. With over 40 interviews, the film takes viewers through Evans’ turbulent life and focuses on his contribution to jazz music. This DVD also features historical footage, including his first TV recording from April 1958.

1DVD-Video HBIM 5038246 $10.99

This Dream of You / Diana Krall, voice, pianoRecording sessions by Diana Krall from 2016 and 2017 found her crooning tender classics with a misty vocal quality that’s become her signature. Those sessions have now resulted in This Dream of You, an assortment of love songs (“That’s All,” “Almost Like Being in Love”) and nostalgic tunes (“Autumn in New York,” “Singin’ in the Rain”) that Krall has a knack for making her own. – JazzTimes

1CD IMPU B003251902 $18.99

For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver / Christian McBride Big Band

Christian McBride solidifies his role as the champion of the past, present and future of jazz with his GRAMMY Award-winning Big Band’s new album in tribute to Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery and Oliver Nelson. Featuring special guests Joey DeFrancesco and Mark Whitfield, “For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver” honors the historical legacy of the jazz legends who shaped the soul of music for generations to come.

1CD MCKA 1152 $17.99

Sarah Vaughan and her Trio / Sarah Vaughan, vocals; Carl Schroeder, piano [DVD Video]

This DVD is part of a new series of unreleased iconic jazz concerts from the archives of Belgium public TV – newly captured from original film material. Enjoy Sarah Vaughan and her Trio playing at the Marni Theatre, Brussels in 1974. With Carl Schroeder (piano), John Gianelli (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums). This unreleased performance is featuring all time classics such as “’Round Midnight”, “I’ll Remember April” and “I Cried for You”

1DVD-Video EUA 26494 $29.99

Kind of Blue / Miles Davis, trumpet [2 CDs]With the release of 1959’s Kind of Blue, Miles Davis scaled the heights of critical acclaim. This, the best-selling jazz album of all time, captured the public’s ear and attention immediately upon release and has never lost its grip. This masterful 21-track 50th Anniversary edition includes bonus cuts such as a 17-minute live recording of “So What” and more.2CD SBMG 88697271052 $18.99

Harp vs. Harp / Edmar Castaneda, harp; Grégoire Maret, harp; Bela Fleck, banjo

Harp vs. Harp is an exciting duo featuring the unusual combination of harp and harmonica. Since his move to the United States in 1994, Edmar Castaneda has quite literally taken the world stage by storm with the sheer force of his virtuosic command of the harp – revolutionizing the way audiences and critics alike consider the instrument. On this new release, he is joined by guest artists Bela Fleck and Andrea Tierra.

1CD AMV 90442 $18.99

Blue World / John Coltrane, saxophoneIn 1964, Canadian filmmaker Gilles Groulx asked John Coltrane to record the soundtrack for a French language film titled Le Chat dans le sac. Without informing his label, Coltrane recorded these tracks for Groulx at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio, which became his only soundtrack work. This previously-unreleased collection of recordings from the legendary saxophonist includes eight versions of some of his most classic pieces.

1CD VRV B003015702 $18.99

Once Upon A Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions / Bob James, piano

Previously unissued release of studio recordings from pianist Bob James at Wollman Auditorium at Columbia University in 1965. James is featured in two different trio settings: one from January 1965 with bassist Larry Rockwell and drummer Bob Pozar, and one from October 1965 with bassist Bill Wood and drummer Omar Clay, performing a mix of jazz standards and original compositions.

1CD RESO 2045 $23.99

The Brubeck-Desmond Songbook / Jens Søndergaard Quartet

Jens Søndergaard, who received the Ben Webster award in 2017, is one of the most important saxophonists in Danish Jazz. His new product is The Brubeck-Desmond Songbook, a nod to two of the most iconic composers in jazz, who had a great influence on his development.

1CD STF 1014332 $14.99

Idle Moments (Remaster) / Grant Green, guitarTime is suspended on these four haunting, extended tunes by brilliant guitarist Grant Green with the aid of an all-star cast. Unique in Green’s discography for its relaxed, lengthy performances and almost dream-like lyricism, this Blue Note classic could well be called “Ballads for the Ages.”

1CD BLU 990032B $19.99

At Carnegie Hall / Thelonious Monk Quartet; John Coltrane, saxophone

This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America.

1CD BLU 351732B $23.99


New Blue Note Titles

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Tone Poem / Charles Lloyd & The MarvelsTone Poem is the third album by Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, the genre-straddling quintet that features the master saxophonist with Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums. The nine dynamic tracks here include new Lloyd originals along with pieces by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Cohen, Gabor Szabo, and Bola de Nieve.

1CD BLU B003313402 $18.99

Samba de Maracatu / Joe Chambers, drums, vibesThe great drummer Joe Chambers was a stalwart presence on many of the most progressive Blue Note albums of the mid-1960s. But it wasn’t until 1998 that Chambers made his own Blue Note debut as a leader with his album Mirrors. Now the venerated drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist/composer returns with Samba de Maracatu, a sterling set of original compositions, standards, and pieces by Shorter, Hutcherson, and Horace Silver.

1CD BLU B003315302 $18.99

R+R=Now Live! / R+R=NowThis is a new live release from R+R=NOW, the supergroup assembled by keyboardist Robert Glasper, which also includes Terrace Martin on synthesizer and vocoder, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Derrick Hodge on bass, Taylor McFerrin on synth and beatbox, and newcomer Justin Tyson on drums. This genre-mashing outfit moves as one and, as their name reveals, with great purpose.

1CD BLU B003327402 $18.99

Rainbow Sign / Ron Miles, cornetBlue Note debut by cornetist & composer Ron Miles, this is the follow-up to his widely acclaimed 2017 album I Am A Man, featuring the same remarkable collaborations. Miles wrote most of the music in Summer 2018 as his father was passing away; it’s both a loving dedication and a riveting spiritual document that scores the journey from Earth to eternal peace.

1CD BLU B003239502 $17.99

Blue Note Re:imagined / Various Artists [2 CDs]Legendary labels Decca Records and Blue Note have joined forces for Blue Note Re:imagined; a new collection of 16 classic tracks, reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene’s most exciting young talents. A bridge between the ground-breaking label’s past and future, the project features contributions from a rollcall of acclaimed jazz, soul and R&B acts like Shabaka Hutchings, Ezra Collective, & more.

2CD BLU B003228902 $22.99

Artemis / ArtemisArtemis presents their self-title debut album. The supergroup – Renee Rosnes (piano), Melissa Aldana (tenor sax), Anat Cohen (clarinet), Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), Noriko Ueda (bass), Allison Miller (drums) and Cécile McLorin Salvant (vocals) conjures a powerful, multi-generational, globe-spanning collective voice. The 9-track project features material that unfurls with a dynamic flow, stunningly eclectic yet entirely cohesive.

1CD BLU B003215902 $16.99

Just Coolin’ / Art Blakey & The Jazz MessengersThis never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, New Jersey studio on March 8, 1959, features the legendary drummer along with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt. The six-song set includes two previously unissued compositions: “Quick Trick” and “Jimerick”.

1CD BLU B003164102 $16.99

Color of Noize / Derrick Hodge, bassMulti-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Derrick Hodge’s 3rd album Color of Noize reflects a melting pot of influence and experience with jazz flow, hip-hop groove, soulful depth, spiritual heft, and creative fire. Co-produced by Hodge and Don Was, it’s his first album to include a live band throughout the recording.

1CD BLU B003210502 $16.99

Wishful Thinking / Earl Klugh, guitarWishful Thinking, originally released in 1984, was Earl Klugh’s 10th studio album. It features the wide variety of musical styles Klugh is comfortable playing and composing – blues, soul-jazz, smooth jazz, reggae tinged rhythms, classical – augmented by orchestrated arrangements. Saxophonist David Sanborn guests on “The Only One for Me”.

1CD BLU B003139302 $18.99

on the tender spot of every calloused moment / Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpetAmbrose Akinmusire follows his acclaimed, genre-busting 2018 manifesto, Origami Harvest, with another visionary statement on his new album on the tender spot of every calloused moment. The trumpeter examines blackness on an uncompromising set of modern jazz laced with a heavy blues feeling. The album presents 11 new compositions by Akinmusire.

1CD BLU B003210402 $16.99

Pick Me Up Off the Floor / Norah Jones, piano, vocalsNorah Jones’ seventh solo studio album Pick Me Up Off The Floor features collaborators from Brian Blade to Jeff Tweedy, and grew out of her acclaimed singles series as the songs she hadn’t yet released unexpectedly congealed into an album of tremendous depth and beauty connected by the sly groove of her piano trios and lyrics that confront loss and portend hope.

1CD BLU B003179402 $18.99

The Complete Birth of the Cool / Miles Davis, trumpet

In honor of the 70th anniversary of its original singles in 1949, The Complete Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis is available now on CD. This release features Miles Davis’ classic Birth of the Cool as well as live material from 1948. The package features a brand new retrospective essay by Ashley Kahn, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece.

1CD BLU B003044202 $18.99

Share the Wealth / The Nels Cline SingersThe third Blue Note album by guitarist and Wilco bandmember Nels Cline features an expanded edition of his long-running project The Nels Cline Singers with saxophonist Skerik, keyboardist Brian Marsella, bassist Trevor Dunn, drummer Scott Amendola and percussionist Cyro Baptista. A dynamic album created from spontaneous music-making that brims with swirling, evocative soundscapes and uninhibited explorations.

1CD BLU B003244802 $18.99

Who Are You? / Joel Ross, vibesJoel Ross’ follow-up to his widely acclaimed debut KingMaker, which made Best of 2019 lists in NPR Music, Rolling Stone, & more. The album was co-produced by Walter Smith III & features Ross’ Good Vibes band with Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone, Jeremy Corren on piano, Kanoa Mendenhall on bass & Jeremy Dutton on drums, plus harpist Brandee Younger on several tracks.

1CD BLU B003222702 $18.99

Valentine / Bill Frisell, guitarThe debut recording of guitarist Bill Frisell’s trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston is a wide-ranging 13-song set that mixes Frisell originals new and old, jazz standards, traditional songs, and covers. Valentine explores the creative freedom of the trio format and the profound musical relationship between these three musicians after years of touring.

1CD BLU B003216902 $16.99

Omega / Immanuel Wilkins, alto saxophoneAfter making a striking appearance on Joel Ross’ KingMaker, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins delivers an expansive opus about the Black experience in America on his own debut album, Omega, which was produced by Jason Moran and features a next-generation quartet with pianist Micah Thomas, bassist Daryl Johns, and drummer Kweku Sumbry.

1CD BLU B003221502 $16.99

Live at the Village Vanguard / Gerald Clayton, pianoPianist Gerald Clayton makes his Blue Note debut with Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard. An example of musical gambles taken on stage, the exceptional quintet (tenor sax-Walter Smith III, bassist-Joe Sanders, drummer-Marcus Gilmore) deliver dynamic performances at NYC’s legendary Village Vanguard. Includes four Clayton originals and Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the Coltrane”.

1CD BLU B003209902 $16.99

The Women Who Raised Me / Kandace Springs, piano, vocals

From the beginning of Kandace Springs’ new album, you know you’ve arrived at something different. While 2018’s Indigo found the Nashville singer-pianist bends into new genre forms, The Women Who Raised Me adheres sonically to jazz while Springs travels across a century of music, covering the women who inspired her while she was growing up, putting her own spin on songs associated with a dozen of the greatest female vocalists of all-time.

1CD BLU B003161902 $16.99

Live from Newport Jazz / James Carter Organ TrioSaxophone master James Carter makes his Blue Note debut with James Carter Organ Trio: Live from Newport Jazz – his first new release since 2011.

1CD BLU B003079802 $18.99

Taller / Jamie Cullum, piano, vocalsThe latest release from Jamie Cullum, the globally celebrated musician whose career spans 18 years, beginning with the success of his major label breakthrough Twentysomething.

1CD BLU B003045402 $18.99

All Rise / Gregory Porter, vocalsAll Rise marks a return to Gregory Porter’s beloved songwriting style – heart-on-sleeve lyrics imbued with everyday philosophy, set to a stirring mix of jazz, soul, blues and gospel.

1CD BLU B003164502 $18.99

Concentric Circles / Kenny Barron, pianoOn his Blue Note debut, Concentric Circles, 11-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist Kenny Barron emerges with his new quintet.

1CD BLU B002832502 $18.99

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